“My Mom, the one and only, Maggie Griffin, passed away today. I am gutted. My best friend. I’m shaking. I won’t ever be prepared,” Griffin tweeted. “I’m so grateful you guys got to be part of her life. You knew her. You loved her. She knew it. Oh, and OF COURSE she went on St Patrick’s Day.”
Griffin first acknowledged that her mother’s health was declining in a January 2019 tweet, in which she shared that her mom was struggling with dementia. The comic’s mother appeared on both of Griffin’s TV series, My Life on the D-List and Kathy. Her mother also made appearances in the TV specials Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story and Kathy Griffin: 50 and Not Pregnant. In the January thread, Griffin called her mom “the bigger star.”
Other celebrities responded to Griffin’s Tuesday tweet to sympathize with the comic and talk about how much they loved her hilarious mom.
“Oh Kathy. I’m so, so sorry. We love you,” Chrissy Teigen wrote.
“There are no words. Just sending love,” Joy Reid tweeted.
“We loved her,” Billy Eichner shared.
“They don’t make women like Maggie Griffin anymore,” journalist Yashar Ali wrote. “You were an amazing daughter and showed her a whole new world outside of Oak Park. I feel so lucky that I got to spend time with her.”
My Life on the D-List fans also mourned the Griffin matriarch’s death. YouTuber Shane Dawson wrote that he’d have a glass of wine in her honor. He also wrote that Griffin felt like family to fans of the show. In her January tweet thread about the diagnosis, Griffin wrote that fans that felt like they knew her mother really did. “When people tell me they feel like they know my mom, I always respond ‘you do!’ She never put on a show, she was the show,” she wrote.
Dawson wasn’t the only fan to eulogize the reality star with a glass of vino—many fans said they’d remember her by having a glass of wine.
Other fans memorialized Griffin by including her catchphrase, “Tip it,” along with their sympathy for the comedian.
Longtime fans also spoke about how important My Life on the D-List was to them, writing that Griffin’s mother was an integral part of the show that helped them through some tough times.