Melissa Rivers‘ home burnt down, but she saved an important item from her mother, Joan Rivers.
The 56-year-old daughter of the late comedian spoke out on CNN, confirming that her house did not survive amid the Los Angeles wildfires.
“I kind of had a mental checklist. I made sure that we got passports, birth certificates, medication, clothing,” she recalled. “I just was out shopping for clothes. It started to hit me, we literally just had what was on our backs.”
“Luckily, my office which is in — was in — my home, [I grabbed] whatever was there,” she continued.
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“In my personal situation, that’s it, that’s the end of everything that belonged to my family and the history of it. To be 100% honest, I grabbed my mom’s Emmy, a photo of my dad and a drawing that my mother had done of me and my son.”
Melissa explained that she decided to save a drawing Joan did over family photos “because I know I can find the photos. [But a drawing of hers] I can’t replace.”
“But my heart is so broken not just for myself, but for everyone going through this,” she went on to say, adding that her Pacific Palisades town has been “wiped off the map.”
Joan won the Emmy for outstanding talk show host in 1990 for The Joan Rivers Show.
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Melissa Rivers, whose home was destroyed by the fires, says she grabbed the necessities and “my mom’s Emmy, a photo of my dad and a drawing my mother had done of me and my son…I went for a drawing of my mother’s rather than a photo, because I know I can find the photos.” pic.twitter.com/YyIBXzbRYb
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 9, 2025
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