Comedian Ryan Asher said she attended a party at Kathy Griffin’s home and encountered condescending celebrities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Griffin accused Asher of “lying” in the recollection and “clout chasing.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Rosie O’Donnell tells EW she “sensed [Asher] was uncomfortable” at the event, and confirms she gave the comedian some money.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Kathy Griffin<\/a> clapped back at a fellow comedian for what the Emmy- and Grammy-winning stand-up comic called “lying” in a story involving allegedly condescending celebrities gathered for a lunch at Griffin’s home.<\/p>\n Comedian Ryan Asher appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race<\/a> alum Delta Work’s Very Delta podcast<\/a> late last year and recalled what she described as an awkward situation among stars like Griffin, Sia<\/a>, and Rosie O’Donnell<\/a> at the My Life on the D-List star’s party. Griffin recently caught wind of the tale and reacted in an Instagram<\/a> post on Saturday, alleging Asher wasn’t telling the truth about portions of the story.<\/p>\n “I was kidding about awards,” Griffin wrote, referencing Asher’s recollection that Griffin began the lunch by saying to the celebrity attendees, “Let’s all go around and introduce ourselves by our awards.”<\/p>\n Kathy Griffin\/Instagram<\/p>\n Kathy Griffin calls out Ryan Asher on social media<\/p>\n Asher said that since she didn’t have any awards or many credits to her name, she decided to make a joke by saying, “Hi, I’m Ryan Asher, and I have $45,” to which she said the crowd \u2014 including Sia and O’Donnell \u2014 responded with a condescending “aww,” because it “made them sad,” she said.<\/p>\n “You are lying about the reaction to you saying you had $45,” Griffin continued. “You are clout chasing. Look, it\u2019s not the biggest crime in the world. I mean, l\u2019ve done it, l even had a 6-year television series where I made fun of my own clout chasing, so no hard feelings from my end. Honestly, I\u2019m sorry you did not have a good time at one of my ‘salon’ parties. I want people to leave my house feeling happy, feeling like they made a new friend or two and feeling full of delicious food.”<\/p>\n In Asher’s story, she said that O’Donnell introduced herself by saying, “I\u2019m Rosie O\u2019Donnell from The Flintstones. Incredible. I couldn\u2019t tell if they were joking, kind of, but they were saying them. They were saying the awards.”<\/p>\n Asher then claimed that the group “quickly moved on” after she made the joke about only having $45, which she admitted was actually not much of a joke after all, because that amount reflected what was in her bank account at the time.<\/p>\n Later, she said O’Donnell approached her and handed her $300 in cash. “She was like, ‘You can\u2019t have $45,'” Asher said. “So, I took it, and I bought weed with it!”<\/p>\n In an email statement to EW, O’Donnell confirms that she gave Asher $300, and that she felt positively about the comedian.<\/p>\n “I liked her. I sensed she was uncomfortable there,” O’Donnell writes. “I understood her, young comic and all.”<\/p>\n In a subsequent comment underneath Griffin’s reactionary Instagram post, Asher clarified her words.<\/p>\n “Kathy. I knew you were kidding about awards,” the comedian replied. “I was still intimidated and felt like I had to think of something funny. The reaction did happen and was also funny. I\u2019m not cloud [sic] chasing. It\u2019s just what happened.”<\/p>\n Other commenters criticized Griffin for using her platform to call Asher a liar, while Delta then publicly invited Griffin to be a guest on Very Delta to tell her side of the story.<\/p>\n “@Kathygriffin\u00a0the invite is still open for you to join us on\u00a0@verydelta\u00a0when your schedule permits,” Delta wrote on Griffin’s post. “You can share the truth from the salon event that\u00a0@reen_machine ‘lied’ about. We would love you to share some of the celebrity encounters you have become so loved for sharing. We eagerly await your spirited recollections.”<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n EW has additionally reached out to representatives for Griffin and Sia for comment.<\/p>\n Watch Asher’s story about the lunch at Griffin’s home in the Very Delta clip above.<\/p>\n Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Kathy](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/638a3844dee9e194379392f6f60861ef.jpeg\"\/)
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