Kathy Griffin has lifted the lid on buckets of personal pain in a new memoir.

Griffin is doing publicity rounds for her new book titled Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According To Kathy Griffin in a tip-off to Oprah, who she is constantly referencing.

Griffin talks about an incestuous relative whose advances she suffered and about her horrific experiences with lipo in 1999. Photo images contained in the tell-all book that surfaced on US television show her torso and legs marked, bruised and puffed by liposuction.

She told Time magazine: “I have a lot of shame about that. The second time I had plastic surgery, I got it done for free. People [magazine] was covering it, and I met a team of doctors that had a publicist who kept adding procedures. The guy who did my LASIK surgery wanted to do a ‘tune-up’, and now I’ve had five surgeries on my eye. I have partial blindness in one of my eyes, actually.”

Griffin, 48, said she got the work done starting from the age of 26 because she works on television. “If I were a public school teacher like my sister Joyce, doing the Lord’s work — unlike me, who’s telling dick jokes for a living — I wouldn’t have gotten anything done. But I have to.”