Kathy Griffin recently opened up on her late brother, whom she claims was a “p**ophile,” while reflecting on the grisly deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner.
Kathy Griffin talks about her late brother
In a recent YouTube video titled “Remembering Rob Reiner | Also, a Condemnation of Gun Violence,” the comedian expressed her anger regarding the slaying of the director and his wife, allegedly at the hands of their son Nick Reiner.
“I’m going to open up to you about something now that I haven’t really talked about since my first book, [“Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin“], and when I talked about it, the rest of my family was very, very upset with me,” Griffin said on December 16th.
Griffin recalled being told Kenneth’s problems began “in his teen years,” alleging his first wife confessed to her when she was 10 that he used to allegedly “beat her so badly” and lock her out of their apartment in freezing Chicago weather.
“For years, I was in and out of separation from the rest of my family because I would never face or deal with my eldest brother, Kenneth, again with just laying into him,” she recalled, disclosing that Kenneth was also her godfather.
Griffin also alleged one of Kenneth’s girlfriends had told her he “was molesting one boy and one girl that she knew of.”
“Having your oldest brother be a pedophile is something that you don’t ever grow out, you don’t get over it. I wanted to k*ll him because all I could think about were all those children,” she alleged, dubbing her late sibling a “wife-beating p**ophile.”
“So the expression that blood is thicker than water is not true in my case,” Griffin added.
“I didn’t give a f–k that he was my older brother and I did not want to protect him, so for many years, other members of my family did not want to acknowledge that Kenneth was abusive even though he beat the crap out of his first wife.”
She even detailed calling the Los Angeles Police Department “repeatedly … once a week” to report her brother for allegedly “molesting two children,” adding, “I don’t know if any of my relatives know that to this day.”
