NEW YORK (AP) " Joan Rivers was many things: brash and brassy comedian, queen of QVC, petite mistress of great big gowns. Melissa Rivers, in an interview Thursday, was not ready to use the word "cathartic." Joan wore it often and added to it over the years, sitting on the floor with little bits of paper she had cut out to configure new stones. Her East 62nd Street penthouse, a former ballroom, was filled with it and nearly two years after her death at 81, her daughter, Melissa Rivers, felt it time to clean house. That's the point of having these things," Melissa added.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 17, 2016 18:11 UTC