“I know you’ve been through all this shit with cancer,” Maher said to Griffin, joking. “I’ve always thought cancer was bad, and I don’t care who’s gonna argue with me. That’s my position.” However, Maher says that Griffin’s health trials have brought the best out of her, continuing, “But I swear to God, I feel like it’s made you a better person.”
Griffin said that her cancer struggles may have made her more sympathetic in the eyes of the public after years of being reviled by many incensed red-hats, saying, “I think people can see me as a human being for the first time in a while. And I’ve noticed a lot of people reaching out to me on social media, saying, ‘I didn’t like this about you. I don’t like that, but I’m wishing you well.’”
Griffin is not out of the woods yet, but she’s not going to be beaten easily, either — unlike Anderson Cooper, she’s not going to bail on herself.