Kathy Griffin has severed ties with celebrity attorney Lisa Bloom, who represented her after she held up a fake bloody head of President Donald Trump — and stood by her side as she went rogue during a press conference.
“Dear @LisaBloom pls stop calling me. If you’d like to refund me the tens of thousands of $$ I wasted on your services maybe I’ll talk to you,” the comedian tweeted late Sunday.
Griffin told the Daily Beast that she paid Bloom at least $40,000 to represent her over two days.
The two appeared together in June for a press conference, where the acerbic comic claimed she was the victim of bullying by the Trump family over a shoot by photographer Tyler Shields.
Bloom lashed back with her own tweet in which she said in a lengthy statement that Griffin had reached out to her before the press conference, where the comedian tearfully claimed the video was a parody.
“It was a parody of Trump’s own sexist remarks taken to an extreme, absurdist visual,” she said at the time, referring to Trump’s infamous remark that former Fox News Channel journalist Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of wherever.”
“Her entire team (entertainment lawyer, criminal lawyer, and several others) approved in advance the statements she and I were going to make,” wrote Bloom, who represented women who have accused Bill Cosby and Bill O’Reilly of harassment.
“Yet Kathy then during the press conference spontaneously chose to put aside the notes we had worked so hard on together. She said on camera ‘my notes are by the wayside and it’s all off the cuff’ and then ad libbed,” she said.
“I was sorry she made that choice but I respected her right to speak as she saw fit. She was, as she says, then widely panned for her comments. Now she blamed me,” she continued.
“She’s the only client I’ve ever had who chose to extemporize at a press conference rather than to read from notes we prepared in advance.”
Bloom — daughter of high-profile feminist attorney Gloria Allred — added that she is still receiving death and rape threats after the press conference.
“I know Kathy has as well and I’m sure it’s unnerving,” she wrote.
“Kathy has now made a video about how women should stand together, and yet she’s attacked me, a lifetime women’s rights attorney, and not the rest of her team, all of whom were men.”
She ended the statement on a conciliatory note, saying she believes Griffin “is one of the funniest comics alive, that she meant no ill will with the photo, and I wish her the best.”
Bloom recently resigned from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s legal team as accusations of sexual assault and harassment mounted against him.
Griffin, who is in Australia as part of her world tour, posted a Facebook video Wednesday acknowledging that she didn’t have a good experience with Bloom, the Daily Mail reported.
“There’s right and wrong, and I think it’s time to expose some stuff. I hired her [Bloom] for a couple of days during my Trump mask scandal. It didn’t go well,” she said.
“If you want my Lisa Bloom statement, anybody, OK, here it is. Yes, I got Bloomed. Yes, I did not have a good experience with her. I felt that she and her husband exacerbated my personal situation. That horrible press conference was a disaster.”
“I’m not gonna sue Lisa Bloom. I don’t think Lisa Bloom should be shot, like people want to shoot me. So there’s my f—king statement,” she said.