Appearing on Tuesday’s Wendy Williams Show, Melissa Rivers said she filed a lawsuit against Yorkville Endoscopy, the New York City clinic where her mother, Joan Rivers, suffered complications from which she later died last October, because “I want to find out what happened, I need to know, I need answers. I’m angry.”
Meanwhile, E! has postponed her series, “Fashion Police,” until September, when Melissa believes she’d be fit to function as the show’s executive-producer again. To date, following Joan’s death, two regulars on the show, Kathy Griffin and Kelly Osbourne, have quit.
“I also thought we wouldn’t be having to recast the show … twice now in less than a year,” Melissa confessed. “So I don’t count on anything anymore.”
“We didn’t realize how much everybody was mourning,” she told NBC’s New York Live. “It really was a family and the sisters started to have a fight, and all these things kind of happened. We lost our matriarch, and now we’re figuring it out again.”
Melissa’s memoir, The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation, was released on May 5.
In July 2014, Joan Rivers was caught on video strongly and proudly defending Israel.