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Melissa Rivers reflects on what she lost in the Los Angeles wildfires—none of which was her late mother Joan Rivers‘ inheritance.
“Fortunately, the jokes and the main archive pieces were picked up about two and a half, three months ago for the National Comedy Centre,” Melissa, 56, said. People in an interview published on Sunday, January 19.
Melissa noted that the file cabinet contained over 65,000 of Joan’s original jokes from the start of her career in the 1950s until her death in 2014. (Joan died at the age of 81 after suffering complications from outpatient throat surgery.)
Melissa added that Joan’s “good things,” meaning her jewelry, were in a safety deposit box in the bank vault. Joan’s wardrobe was auctioned off for charity.
Melissa, who was one of the tens of thousands of local residents forced to evacuate Los Angeles because of the ongoing forest fires, he said CNN On January 8, she grabbed Joan’s Emmys and a photo of her father, Edgar Rosenbergbefore she left her home.
“This is the end of everything that belonged to my family and its history,” Melissa told the news organization at the time. “I grabbed my mom’s Emmy, a photo of my dad, and a drawing my mom made of me and my son. … I went for a drawing of her, rather than a photo. I know I’ll find photos, but a drawing I can’t replace.’
Aside from the things she took before leaving home, Melissa lost other memories of her parents.
“I had her robe and my dad’s robe,” she said People. “Everybody’s like, ‘What about her wardrobe?’ But I feel like I lost their only three things I had at home because they reminded me so much of them.
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 couldn’t do that anymore,” Melissa, 56, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting the upcoming November event Dead Funny: A Living Tribute to Joan Rivers Benefiting (…)
Melissa explained that she and her fiancé, Steve Mitchelllost “everything” and added: “When we say we lost everything, you can’t get it until you see the video. It’s not just my life, but my son Cooper’s. We were both only children and everything is gone.’
Melissa, who welcomed son Cooper, 24, with John Endicott in 2000 she said her life was inside three crates on the 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,” she said. “Cooper is made of the same hard stuff I am. And we all lean on each other and get through it.”
Now, Melissa has found temporary housing and is using her inherited sense of humor as she and her family navigate what’s next. “It’s my superpower,” she said of laughing at the worst times, like Joan. “I am the daughter of my parents.
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