Ten months after Joan Rivers suddenly died after going in for a minorthroat procedure, her daughter Melissa Rivers is opening up about how she'sonly now started the grief process. “I had put myself on a treadmill after she died and two anda half months ago, I finally hit the wall,” she told HELLO!. “I cried for threeweeks straight."
Much to the relief ofher family and friends, once the 47-year-old "hit the wall," she wasable to begin processing the loss of her beloved mother and move forward with some help. "I’ve seen a griefcounselor – alongside medication and booze," Melissa added.
And it wasn'tjust her own mental health she was concerned about, she helped her only sonCooper manage the grief as well. "I’ve made sure Cooper received help,too," she said. "Everybody should. We spend so much of our livestrying to be so special, but bereavement is the one time when you take a lot ofcomfort from being incredibly average.”
Melissa got help for her son Cooper as well Photo: Getty Images
The brunette beautywent on to talk about the final days with her 81-year-old mother, who stopped breathing while undergoinga scheduled throat procedure to treat her acid reflux at an outpatient clinic. “Ibrought in a hair and make-up team," Melissa shared about her mother beingin a coma. "We put her in her favorite pretty bathrobe and made sure shelooked the way she would want to look.”
Speaking of looking her best,Joan was vocal about undergoing plastic surgery many times throughout her life,something her daughter tried to talk her out of. "She didn’t listen," the mom-of-one said. My motherdidn’t listen to anybody.”
Now, Melissa, who recently penned The Book of Joan, has filed alawsuit against Yorkville Endoscopy, the place where her mother had the procedure though it won't bring her mother back. “I miss her every day," she concluded. "We were soclose.”
Read the full story in this week's HELLO! magazine, available via digital download or on Friday at all Barnes & Noble stores and selected newsstands.
