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Rivers of Melissa reflects on what was lost in the Los Angeles wildfires – none of which was recently a mother Joan Rivers‘ heirs.
“Fortunately, about two-and-a-half, three months ago, the jokes and archival highlights were picked up for a national comedy centre,” Melissa, 56, told People in an interview published on Sunday, January 19.
Melissa noted that the filing cabinet contained over 65,000 of Joan’s original jokes from the start of her career in 1950 until her death in 2014. (Joan died at the age of 81 after experiencing complications during outpatient throat surgery.)
Melissa added that Joan’s “good things,” meaning her jewelry, are in a safety deposit box in a bank vault. Joan’s wardrobe has been auctioned off for charity.
Melissa, who was one of the tens of thousands of local people forced to leave Los Angeles because of the ongoing wildfires, we were told CNN on January 8 she grabbed Emmy Joan and a picture of her father, Edgar Rosenbergbefore leaving her home.
“That was the end of everything related to my family and its history,” Melissa told the news organization at the time. “I grabbed my mother’s Emmy, a picture of my father and a picture my mother had made of me and my son. …I went for a picture of her, rather than a picture. I know I can find the pictures, but I can’t replace it with a picture.”
Apart from the items she took before leaving her home, Melissa lost her other memories of her parents.
“I got her bathrobe and my dad’s bathrobe,” she said People. “Everybody’s like, ‘What about her wardrobe?’ But I’m like, I lost the only three things of theirs that I kept in my house because they reminded me so much of them.”
Melissa Rivers knows that Fashion Police was must-see TV when her mother, Joan Rivers, was at the helm – but she doesn’t think it would work in today’s social climate. “(You) couldn’t do that anymore,” Melissa, 56, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting the upcoming November event Dead Funny: A Live Tribute to Joan Rivers at Elwa (…)
Melissa explained that she a her fiancé, Steve Mitchelllost “everything,” adding, “When we say we’ve lost everything, well you can’t get it until you see the video. It’s not just my life, but my son Cooper’s too. We were both just children, and it’s all gone.”
Melissa, who welcomed her son Cooper, 24, with John Endicott in 2000, she said her life was inside the three tota LL Bean boat. Melissa noted that she and her family are doing “as well as can be expected.”
“We’re all doing the best we can,” he said. “Cooper is made of the same tough stuff I am. And we all lean on each other and cope. “
Now, Melissa has found temporary housing and is embracing her inherited sense of humor as she and her family navigate what’s next. “It’s my superpower,” she says laughing at the worst times, like Joan. “I am my parents’ daughter.”
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