Kathy Griffin to Howard Stern: I Shouldn’t Have Tried To Replace Joan Rivers

Kathy Griffin to Howard Stern: I Shouldn’t Have Tried to Replace Joan Rivers (Mediaite)

Last week, comedian Kathy Griffin announced on Twitter that she would be leaving the E! show Fashion Police less than two months after taking over for the late Joan Rivers as host. Now, in an interview with Howard Stern that she never should have tried to replace Rivers in the first place.

“In retrospect, right now, do you say, ‘Why the fuck did I take that gig?’” Stern asked Griffin.

“Well, I probably shouldn’t have taken the gig,” Griffin said, noting it had only been six months since Rivers passed away. But after Melissa Rivers, who produces Fashion Police, told her that she was only one who would have gotten her mother’s blessing, “that was kind of the decider.”