Comedian Kathy Griffin has posted a bizarre, grovelling letter she claims she received from a high-powered US TV executive and was ordered to forward on to US President Donald Trump in the hopes of rehabilitating her career.
The controversial comic weathered her biggest scandal yet in Junewhen she posted footage from a photo shoot in which she held a dummy Trump severed head aloft.
Reaction from both sides of the US political divide was swift and brutal, and Griffin apologised as networks and brands rushed to disassociate themselves from her.
The scandal certainly hurt Griffin's career - and also saw her questioned by the secret service. In a post on her Facebook page today, Griffin shares a bizarre letter she says she was sent by a "current member of the Board of Directors at CBS".
The TV exec strongly advised Griffin to send a grovelling letter they drafted direct to President Trump in her own name.
"DON'T CHANGE A WORD OF IT," the exec warns. "I have spent the last hour and a half composing this letter ... IF YOU DON'T DO EXACTLY WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN, YOUR CAREER IS OVER."
The TV boss advises that sending the letter would be Griffin's "one chance" to "possibly get over this mess."
The letter itself is a grovelling apology to Trump, praising him for "the great things you have done and are doing" and blaming her political views on being influenced by "false news".
"I do not deserve what I am asking of you. I am begging you to open your heart and forgive me. I have done a terrible thing and I have lost may (sic) career and my life. My career is over as I have lost the respect of my audience. I spent my entire life to get to wherever I was in stand-up comedy, only to lose it forever," the letter states.
Griffin herself said the letter was "NUTS" and explained she was sharing it - with the sender's details removed - as CBS "may not be aware that their board member has these leanings".
