Kathy Griffin tells E! Online’s Marc Malkin her efforts to smooth things over with Clay Aiken didn’t go too well backstage during Rosie O’Donnell’s Thanksgiving variety show. “I held up one of those ghetto blasters playing one of Clay’s songs, and I begged him to take me back and he said no,” said Griffin, who had called the singer “Gayken” before the ‘American Idol’ season two runner-up revealed he was gay. “And then I walked out of the room and Gloria Estefan said to me, ‘I told ya—you shouldn’t have gone in there alone.’” Read more.