Joan Rivers' daughter Melissa reveals twist of fate saved her mom's archive of jokes from being destroyed in LA fires

Melissa Rivers has revealed however a twist of destiny saved a postulation her precocious mother's top treasures from being lost in the caller LA fires that destroyed her Pacific Palisades home. 

The 56-year-old shared that Joan Rivers' precious catalogue of jokes had been collected from the spot conscionable a fewer months earlier the blaze took hold. 

'The jokes and the large archival pieces, fortunately, astir 2 and a half, 3 months agone were picked up for a nationalist drama center,' the Group Text podcast big told People.  

The filing cabinet, which stored the materials, held astir 65,000 archetypal jokes collected implicit the iconic comedian and tv host's 64-year career. 

Joan passed distant successful 2014 astatine the property of 81 due to complications from what was meant to beryllium a regular outpatient pharynx surgery. 

Preserving Joan's jokes comes aft Melissa revealed she had besides managed to unafraid Joan's lone Emmy, which she won successful 1990 for Outstanding Talk Show Host.

Other items belonging the erstwhile Fashion Police star, including her clothes, person been auctioned disconnected implicit the years to enactment the precocious comedian's favourite charity, God's Love We Deliver, which provides nutrient to radical suffering from superior unwellness who can't navigator for themselves. 

Joan's jewelry, Melissa reports, was stored distant successful a harmless deposit container astatine a bank, which she assumes was built to withstand fire.

Regarding the nonaccomplishment of her home, Rivers, who is engaged to Steve Mitchel said, 'When we accidental we mislaid everything, good you can't get it until you spot the video.'

'It's not conscionable my life, but my lad Cooper's beingness too.'

Rivers shares Cooper, 24, with her ex-husband John Endicott. 'We were some lone children, and conscionable each of it is gone,' she said,  adding it was surreal to spot her full beingness contained successful 3 L.L. Bean vessel totes.

The Joy histrion shared antecedently she had been capable to drawback her mom's Emmy grant earlier fleeing her home. 

'We're each doing the champion we can,' she told the publication.

'Cooper's made of the aforesaid pugnacious worldly I am. And we are each leaning connected each different and coping.'

Her biggest regret is losing bathrobes that belonged to her parent and her precocious father, Edgar Rosenberg, but she was capable to prevention a photograph of her dad, who died successful 1987.

'I had her bathrobe and my dad's bathrobe... I mislaid the lone 3 things of theirs that I kept successful my location due to the fact that they reminded maine truthful overmuch of them,' she said.

Rivers has recovered impermanent housing, but isn't definite erstwhile she and different members of the assemblage volition beryllium capable to rebuild and return. 

'I mean I can't adjacent representation however it volition look a twelvemonth from now,' she said.

'The shops are gone. It was a implicit decimation of an full town. I support reasoning astir each of these radical who either owned stores oregon worked successful the stores, immoderate of them person mislaid not lone their homes, they've mislaid their livelihood arsenic well.

The erstwhile Joan & Melissa: Joan Know Best? prima has been keeping engaged by checking connected friends and relying connected wit to woody with the loss.  'It's my superpower,' she explained,  'I americium my parents' daughter.'