Kathy Griffin Says Her Late Mother Thought She Was ‘Too Snippy’ to Barbara Walters on ‘The View’

Kathy Griffin is keeping her mother’s memory alive.

The My Life on the D-List star, 65, returned to The View on Friday, April 24, where she discussed how she continues to use her mom, Maggie Griffin, who died at age 99 in 2020, in her standup act for her New Face, New Tour show.

“People still like to hear stories about my mom and stuff she would say,” she told the hosts, per Entertainment Weekly.

One story she shared was the time her mom critiqued her appearance on the show back when co-creator Barbara Walters, who died in 2022 at age 93, was hosting.

“When I was on The View, she’d always yell at me,” Griffin said told the current lineup of hosts, adding, “I thought you were too snippy with that wonderful Barbara Walters. Is there a card I can send her? Because I don’t think she’s ever had a guest as rude, Kathleen, as you!”

This isn’t the first time that Griffin has discussed her interactions with Walters. In a 2025 episode of her podcast, she claims she upset Walters by turning down a job offer to be a permanent host on The View years ago. Griffin revealed the show kept flying her to New York to be on the show as a kind of test drive for permanence, which upset her.

“Eventually, I said to my agent, ‘Tell them, if they’re going to offer me a permanent chair, please tell them to just offer me the chair or not.’ I keep flying out there; they’re trying out new hosts so much, I’m like, I’m done auditioning. Did I get the job or not?” Griffin recalled.

Eventually, she says they made her an offer for $1.4 million, which was significantly less than the roughly $10 million she was pulling in per year at the time with her standup tours and My Life on the D-List, so she turned them down.

She claims Walters, “did not like that one bit” and says the longtime host refused to up the “offer by a penny.”