UP IN SMOKE

Melissa Rivers Shares Heartbreak of Losing Mom Joan’s Keepsakes in L.A. Fires

Rivers said she was only able to grab three of her mother’s possessions before fleeing.

Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa is opening up about losing her mom’s possessions after her home burned down in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

Rivers said she was “still in shock” a week after losing her home in the Palisades fire.

“But I’m one of those people who has twice gone through the experience of going to bed one way and then you wake up with your life upside down,” she said in an interview with People. “First with my father, and then when I lost my mom.”

Joan Rivers, an iconic comedian and television host, passed away in 2014. Melissa Rivers' father, Edgar Rosenberg, died by suicide in 1987.

Rivers said she was devastated to lose her mom’s favorite sweater and her parents’ bathrobes.

“Everybody is like, ‘What about her wardrobe?’ But I’m like, I lost the only three things of theirs that I kept in my house because they reminded me so much of them,” she said.

Rivers previously told CNN that she was able to save her mother’s Emmy and a photo of her father, but she didn’t have anything else.

“It’s crazy to look down and realize that everything you own in life has been stuffed into three LL Bean Tote bags,” she said to People. “It’s all just so surreal. I think I’m still in shock.”

Rivers added that she gets her strength from her parents.

“I am my parent’s daughter,” she said. “Our family motto was from Winston Churchill: ‘If you’re going through hell, keep going.’”