Melissa Rivers has vented out her frustrations on Kathy Griffin after the latter released a statement that Rivers was not a huge fan of.
Griffin announced that she would be leaving her post as host of E!'s "Fashion Police" a month after she took over from original host & Melissa's mother Joan Rivers, who died of complications from throat surgery at the age of 81, according to Page Six.
"I do not want to use my comedy to contribute to a culture of unattainable perfectionism and intolerance towards difference," the comedian said.
Since then, Rivers has maintained a dignified silence over the event. That is until she appeared at the 92nd Street Y, when she unleashed all of her disappointment & anger towards Griffin.
"I'm just gonna say it wasn't a match on a lot of levels," she told Hoda Kotb. "My biggest complaint was the feeling that she kind of s - - t all over my mother's legacy in her statement on leaving. And I know that was not an intentional reading of it, but that's how I felt . . . by calling the comedy and the style of it old-fashioned. It was like, I understand what you were doing, you're trying to save yourself, but don't crap all over my mother to do it."
Rivers also expressed disappointment towards the on-going feud between former co-hosts Giuliana Rancic and Kelly Osbourne, a feud that stemmed after Rancic made a comment about Zendaya's dreadlocks.
"We were a family, cast and crew . . . and we went back too soon. And just like a family, when the matriarch dies, the sisters started fighting; and someone tried to marry in - not a great match, live and learn," she said. "'Fashion Police' was a little jewel and it was the last piece I had of my mother . . . I felt like all these people were so out of control, including the person who made the allegation about racism. They took the last thing I had and smashed it."
