Kathy Griffin apologizes for President Trump photo: "I went too far"

Warning: Some may find the full image, which is embedded below, to be disturbing.

LOS ANGELES  — Kathy Griffin says she went way too far when she appeared in a brief video Tuesday holding what looked like President Donald Trump's bloody, severed head.

The comic posted a video later Tuesday, May 30th, apologizing for the video image, saying it was "too disturbing" and wasn't funny.

The first video showed a straight-faced Griffin slowly lifting the bloody head. She originally described the project with photographer Tyler Shields as an "artsy fartsy statement" mocking the commander in chief.

Griffin says in her apology video that she has asked the photographer to remove the images and begs her fans for forgiveness. Griffin says she made a mistake, went too far and was wrong.

Publicists for Griffin and Shields did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday from The Associated Press.

Griffin placed herself in the middle of a social-media firestorm Tuesday with the picture.

TMZ first reported on the photo shoot, and photographer Tyler Shields posted a Tweet from TMZ and a behind-the-scenes YouTube video of the shoot with Griffin.

“We have to move to Mexico today because we’re going to go to prison – federal prison,” Griffin joked to Shields in the video.

“Tyler and I are not afraid to do images that make noise," Griffin said.

Backlash on social media was immediate.

Griffin initially defended the gory image on Twitter, calling Shields a "great photog/film maker" and saying she doesn't condone "any violence by my fans or others to anyone."