Melissa Rivers Honors Her Late Mother Joan Rivers at The ‘Daytime Emmy Awards’

Melissa Rivers, daughter of the late TV icon Joan Rivers, honored her mother at this years Daytime Emmy Awards by thanking the daytime community for their support of her mother after she hit a low point in her career in the 1980’s. Joan was involved in numerous projects when she passed away and Melissa credits the longevity of her mother’s career to the second chance she received in daytime television. Joan passed away in September of 2014, but it was in 1990 that she won her only Emmy when she walk away with the award for 'Outstanding Talk Show Host.'