When Kathy Griffin released her now-infamous decapitated Donald Trump photo, even her own mother renounced the publicity stunt.

“She said, ‘I am not with you on this one, Kathy. You’ve gone too far,'” Griffin recalled to The Hollywood Reporter of her 97-year-old mother’s reaction to the notorious snapshot.

“It’s been really hard,” said Griffin’s boyfriend, Randy Bick, adding that his own brother, a former Marine, unfriended him on Facebook after the incident. “It seems like everybody turned.”

Despite the reaction from her own loved ones, Griffin, 57, wasn’t convinced the photoshoot was a mistake until pal Rosie O’Donnell reportedly asked, “What if Daniel Pearl’s parents saw this?”

The thought process behind the photo, which was taken by photographer Tyler Shields and was supposed to drum up publicity for her stand-up tour, wasn’t that unusual.

“When you’re in between gigs and trying to stay on the map, you have to think of ways to stay in the spotlight,” Griffin said, adding that another shot they brainstormed was her in a bikini by a pool doing her “best Kim Kardashian,” but then they began pitching ideas of images that “would f—k with Trump,” and collaborated on a decapitation theme.

Though the photo did drum up publicity, it got Griffin’s entire tour scrapped.

“I don’t blame the theater owners. These are theaters that are normally playing ‘Mamma Mia!’ or ‘Stomp,’ and all of a sudden they’re getting calls saying they’re going to ‘shoot her in the c—t live onstage.’ That was the most common threat,” Griffin said. “And that they were going to ‘cut my head off and stuff it up my c—t.'”

Some of those threats were serious, with the FBI classifying them as “credible” and explaining to the comedian how to sort through her hate mail.

“There’s a pile that we think is harmless and a pile that’s questionable,” Griffin said. “And then there’s a pile that the FBI says you put in a Ziploc bag and give to them. That’s my life now.”

While Griffin has an amicable relationship with the FBI now, she’s not too fond of another government agency: the Secret Service, which was required to investigate whether she was a threat to the POTUS. (This wasn’t the first time the Secret Service has investigated an entertainer, having previously questioned Eminem and Ted Nugent over their own respective comments about Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.)

Griffin claimed that the Secret Service questioned her about whether she had any weapons in her home and that her attempt at humor in the situation didn’t quite land.

“I said, ‘No. Oh, well, I have a sword. It’s huge.’ And my lawyers looked at me like, ‘What are you doing?’ The agents got very interested and were like, ‘What is it for?’ And I was like, ‘It’s not for anything. I got it when I hosted the Gay Porn Awards,'” Griffin said. “And I have to say, the guy smirked. He was like, ‘Tell me more about the sword.’ I was like, ‘Well, it’s big. You know the gays.’ And then it was like, ‘No more sword — asking questions.'”

The one-time “My Life on the D-List” star believes much of her backlash is due to sexism, which she also says is why she accused Bravo’s own Andy Cohen of offering her cocaine and being a terrible boss during her tenure at the network, claims that Cohen, 49, has said are a “bag of bulls—t.”

“[I called Cohen out] to illustrate a double standard,” Griffin griped. “If it was me [offering drugs backstage], somebody at Bravo would have said, ‘You have to go.’ When you’re a woman, you get one f—kup, and it’s over. When you’re a guy, you get chance after chance after chance.”

“I didn’t commit a crime. I didn’t rape anybody. I didn’t assault anybody. I didn’t get a DUI. I mean, my God, there are celebrities that f—king kill people,” Griffin lamented of her alleged blacklisting from the industry. “The minute I do something that makes money, they will all love me again. When I’m dead, I’ll be a legend. But not now.”