Kathy Griffin has walked back her controversial comedy set about the late Anna Nicole Smith.

“Anna Nicole Smith [was] one of the greatest beauties ever of any generation, and she was also very troubled,” Griffin, 64, said in a Wednesday, August 27, YouTube video. “As her career went on, she was very addicted to drugs [and] she overdosed.”

According to the comedian, she knew Smith “from putting her in my act” as a stand-up.

“I really loved her,” she recalled. “I was quite vicious to her in my act because she was always f***ed up. I went to her house for Christmas one time, and they filmed it because she used to have a show called The Anna Nicole Show on the E! channel. … I, of course, had real, genuine affection for Anna.”

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