Comedian and TV personality Kathy Griffin recently revealed that CNN president Jeff Zucker fired her after she asked for a raise just ahead of the network’s 2016 New Year’s Eve show.
According to the New York Times, the incident occurred ten days ahead of the show. Griffin was asking for more than the $80,000 that she was contracted for.
“He started yelling at me, and he literally said something like, ‘Who do you think you are calling here demanding a raise?’ And then something came over me. And I just lost it. I just started screaming,” Griffin recalled.
Griffin said Zucker eventually rehired her following a 20 percent cut in her pay.
“It sounds like she is acknowledging that, insofar as Kathy Griffin acknowledges she has ever done anything wrong,” Zucker told the New York Times.
Griffin reportedly said that she would “feel a lot more comfortable showing up if I got paid what I deserve,” a statement that Zucker allegedly took as a threat to quit the show.
In response to Griffin’s statement, Zucker “got very offended,” and the conversation devolved into a shouting match.
