Kathy Griffin Looks Back on Past Relationship with Ex Jack Black and Their Cringey Post-Shower Moment: 'That's Straight Guys'

Mar. 15, 2025

Kathy Griffin and Jack Black.Photo:Michael Tullberg/Getty; Presley Ann/Getty

Michael Tullberg/Getty; Presley Ann/Getty

Kathy Griffinis reflecting on her past with ex-boyfriendJack Black.

In a recentTikTok, the comedian, 64, shed some light on her relationship with theSchool of Rockstar in the 1990s. She showed a photo of her and Black, 55, embracing one another on a couch in a throwback photograph.

“This is a picture of me and my then-boyfriend, Jack Black, who you probably know mostly fromSchool of Rock,” she teased. “So he was the first boyfriend I ever had where other bros thought I was cool because I was dating him,” theMy Life on the D-Liststar said before quipping, “By the way, dating is a very loose term.”

The comic recalled that she stayed at his apartment one time, and the next day, she explained that she used his shower and said to him, “‘I need a shower towel.’ And ‘He goes, ‘You’re standing on it.’”

“You guys, that’s straight guys,” she said. “He had one bath mat/towel that he used for both, and that was it,” she continued. “So naturally, I kept sleeping with him.”

Kathy Griffin and Jack Black.Kathy Griffin/TikTok

Kathy Griffin/TikTok

Griffin has spoken infrequently about her relationship with Black, but she revealed during an appearance onThe Talkin 2013 that theJumanji: Welcome to the Junglestar met her mother, Maggie.

“I remember introducing him to my mum, and my mother said, ‘Oh my god, he looks like a serial killer,'” she said, per theHerald Sun.Griffin added she and Black hooked up a “handful” of times, joking, “I’m not ashamed, but I’m not proud.”

Jack Black on April 1, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty

Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty

She opened up about their relationship in her 2009 book,Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin. “Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s right. I f—ed Jack Black," she wrote, perGoodreads.

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Kathy Griffin on September 21, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

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Since her fling with Black, she marriedsoftware entrepreneurMatthew Moline in 2001, and the pair divorced in 2005. She then datedRandy Bickbeginning in 2011. The pairtied the knotin January 2020, but shefiled for divorcefrom him in December 2023.

She has sincejoked to PEOPLEthat she has her eyes set on a different comic — but he could be to be off the market.

“I had my eye onMarty Short, but that trollopMeryl Streepgot in my way. You cannot trust these Hollywood phonies,” Griffin joked of theOnly Murders in the Buildingcostars’rumored romance.

source: people.com