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Kathy Griffin: 'Police got involved when Demi Lovato's fans sent me death threats'

U.S. comedienne and personality Kathy Griffin has revealed that police contacted her after fans of vocal powerhouse Demi Lovato sent her death threats on social networking site Twitter, which happened after Griffin accidentally offended the 'Neon Lights' star with a silly post

During a new interview with America's Howard Stern, Griffin explained the incident and confessed that the whole situation has just escalated horribly:

"Siri doesn't always interpret everything properly... I couldn't sleep and I actually went on Twitter and said, ‘I'm going to start tweeting things using Siri but I'm not going to correct any of the spelling.'"

"So then someone tweeted back saying, ‘Who's the douchiest person you've met?' And Siri interpreted it as 'Debbie Lovato is a little douche'."

Griffin went on to explain that after she was flooded with death threats and other messages of a violent and derogatory nature, she was contacted by law enforcement officials: "They actually contacted me. Because at that point it goes beyond just Twitter hate, it's actually legit [threats]. So police have to get involved and say, 'Wait a second, there could be a legitimate death threat here'."

She added that there are no ill-feelings on her behalf towards Lovato and she hopes they can just move past it: "The point is I have no problem with Demi Lovato, or Debbie as I like to call her, as Siri calls her."

Watch footage of Lovato performing on her Neon Lights tour here: