You’re outclassed,' she reportedly snapped back. Griffin insists that wasn’t so much Hamm’s 'cruel comments' that got her goat so much as it was his 'horrible timing' in interrupting her conversation with Nicholson. “I let that one go, but then he whispered, ‘You’re so o-o-o-old.’” Photo via Brian To/ “First it was, ‘You know your Emmy isn’t a real Emmy,’” Griffin claims. Griffin says she tried to carry on a conversation with Nicholson, but that Hamm continually interrupted with his “boozy yammering.”Īccording to Griffin, Hamm didn’t take her attempts to ignore him very well and he eventually resorted to berating her for his own amusement: “He proceeded to get very drunk during the coffee table portion, and then when it came for dinner, Sue had sat him next to me,” Griffin writes. Griffin says that Hamm went straight from a day on set at Mad Men to the evening soiree thrown by talent agent Sue Menger, and he wasted no time playing catch up and then exceeding everyone else’s beverage intake by a considerable margin. It seems Hamm had recently broken up with Jennifer Westfeldt and proceeded to 'celebrate' his return to the single life by getting absolutely sh-tfaced and heaping verbal abuse on poor Kathy. In the book, Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index, Griffin recalls a difficult encounter with a drunk-ass Hamm at a dinner party attended by such A-list luminaries as Jack Nicholson.

Now, if a new memoir from comedian Kathy Griffin is to be believed, it seems Hamm spent plenty of time researching the part during his own rise to the top. Well, here’s a feud we never would have seen coming.įor seven seasons, Jon Hamm memorably portrayed the world-beating alcoholic womanizer Don Draper on Mad Men.

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