Kathy Griffin Spends Easter Getting MRI One Year After Cancer Battle

“In August, I had half of my left lung removed. I’m not even kidding,” she said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Nov. 2021. “Now, they, like, put the intubation tube to drop by my vocal cord. So now I’m, like, Minnie Mouse meets Marilyn Monroe, I’m not sure.”

Kathy added that although she had never smoked, the tumor was “in there for 10 years.” After the scan, the doctor explained to her what the procedure to remove the mass would be like.

“So I go in, and he’s, like, describing how they take half your lung out, and he goes, ‘It’s kind of like a balloon. So we do it laparoscopically and we poke it,'” she recalled. “And then he goes, ‘And when we take it out, it kind of looks like a used condom.’ The doctor. And then he goes, ‘You can use that.'”