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Drag queen reenacts Kathy Griffin's Donald Trump shocking 'beheading' photo shoot
June 06, 2017
Drag queen Sharon Needles, "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner, re-enacted Kathy Griffin's ill-fated photo shoot with Tyler Shields, complete with a severed head bearing a striking resemblance to President Donald Trump during an appearance at Pittsburgh's P Town Bar on Monday night.
Griffin's photo shoot went viral after photos and video were obtained by TMZ, and the bipartisan backlash she received was immediate and intense.
The comedienne apologized on Twitter last week, saying, “I am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong.”
She was later relieved of her duties as New Year's Eve co-host at CNN, and held a news conference last Friday to address death threats she'd been receiving as a result of the photo shoot.
“What’s happening to me has never happened — ever — in the history of this great country,” Griffin told reporters, “which is that a sitting president of the United States and his grown children, and the first lady, are personally — I feel — personally trying to ruin my life forever. Forever.
“I’m going to be honest,” Griffin openly wept for the cameras. “[Trump] broke me, he broke me, he broke me.”
About the controversy surrounding Griffin's photo shoot, Needles spoke to World of Wonder and marveled at the "abuse" Griffin took as a result of the shoot.
"It’s kind of mind boggling [sic] the levels to this story,” she told the site, “that a female comic in this day and age, who was a friend of Joan Rivers, and who was on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ with our president, is subjected to this type of abuse. I mean ... if only Joan was still around. And the fact that we don’t hold our male politicians to the same standard as female comedians is shocking."
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See a partial video of Needles' performance in the video below.
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