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Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa had to act fast as fire approached her Pacific Palisades-area, but she managed to grab her famous mother’s Emmy before evacuating. In a live interview Wednesday evening, as fire overtook the sought-after neighborhood, Rivers told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, “I kind of had a mental checklist. I made sure that we got passports, birth certificates, medication, clothing. I just was out shopping for clothes. It started to hit me, we literally just had what was on our backs.” In addition to the bare necessities, Rivers also grabbed things she knew were irreplaceable, like her mom’s Emmy award and a hand-drawn portrait Joan Rivers made of her daughter and grandson. “I went for a drawing of my mother’s rather than a photo because I know I can find the photos, [as that’s something] I can’t replace,” she told Collins. “I grabbed my mom’s Emmy” and “a photo of my dad,” she added. Joan Rivers won her Emmy The Joan Rivers Show in 1990 for Outstanding Talk/Service Show Host. She died in 2014 at the age of 81.
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
