Melissa Rivers She thinks about what she lost in the Los Angeles wildfires — and her late mother wasn't any of it Joan Rivers“The baggage.
“Fortunately, the jokes and key archival pieces were selected about two-and-a-half and three months ago for the National Comedy Center,” Melissa, 56, said. the people In an interview published on Sunday, January 19.
Melissa noted that the filing cabinet held more than 65,000 of Joan's original jokes from the beginning of her career in 1950 until her death in 2014. (Joan died at age 81 after suffering complications during outpatient throat surgery.)
Melissa added that Joan's “good stuff,” meaning her jewelry, was in a safe deposit box in a bank vault. Joan's wardrobe is auctioned off for charity.
Melissa, who was one of tens of thousands of local residents He had to evacuate Los Angeles Due to ongoing forest fires CNN On January 8, she received an Emmy Award from Joan and a photo of her father, Edgar Rosenbergbefore she left her home.
“This is the end of everything that concerns my family and its history,” Melissa told the news organization at the time. “I got an Amy from my mother, a picture of my father and a drawing my mother did of me and my son. …I went to draw it, instead of the picture. I know I can find the pictures, but the drawing I can't replace.
Besides 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. the people. “Everyone wonders: What about her wardrobe?” But I lost the only three things I kept in my house because they reminded me so much of her.
Melissa Rivers knows 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) just can't do it anymore,” Melissa, 56, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting her upcoming November event Dead Funny: A Live Tribute to Joan Rivers benefiting[…]
Melissa explained that she and Her fiancé, Steve MitchellHe added: “When we say we've lost it all, well, you won't get it until you watch the video. It's not just my life, but my son Cooper's life as well. “We were two only children, and all of that was gone.”
Melissa, who welcomed her son Cooper, 24, along John Endicott In 2000, she said her life was inside three L.L. Bean boat bags. Melissa noted that she and her family are doing “as good as expected.”
“We are all doing the best we can,” she said. “Cooper is made of the same tough stuff that I am. And we all lean on each other and adapt.”
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 said of laughing during the worst times, like Joan. “I am my father's daughter.”
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