What Kept Joan Rivers Alive So Long?

Fetal grindings.

R1

Hey, you can't repossess my store! The I Ching said I had six months until bankruptcy!

R2

Channel someone who gives a damn!

Howard Stern once asked Joan why she worked so damn much, and why she wouldn't just retire like all old Jews should.

She said she needed the money, and wasn't rich at all. She spent as much as she earned, and was putting her doorman's grandkids through college.

she was loaded, her house sold for tons of money.

She liked to say she was poor but I think that was just a ruse to hide her workaholic nature. I mean she'd fly in once a week from NYC to LA to do Fashion Police. I never got why she just didn't stay in LA or have them move the show to NYC.

I think she needed to keep moving.

She'd still be alive if the stupid doctor didn't screw up. She didn't have any disease.

Whatever happened to the doctor? Did she stop practicing?

Melissa settled a huge lawsuit.

[quote] she was loaded, her house sold for tons of money.

But, a house isn't liquid. I think she liked to put her money in a lot of less liquid things, like real estate, art, or jewelry so that in the event she needed to she would have a asset to sale. Plus, owning real estate like that requires a great deal of money just for taxes and upkeep.

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She'd be 88 if she were alive today. Nobody lives forever.

Google says she left Melissa 150 million.

R7 She did seem really healthy though. I could've seen her going on as long as Betty White has...if she hadn't got cancelled in the last few years.

$150 million?!?!?!? That shrieking, lying Jew broad!

She was always bitching about having to work on that red carpet to earn a buck, and performing in bullshit casino ballrooms for coin.

Edgar left her with a lot of debt when he died so I think she took just about anything and everything offered to her and continued to do so even after she stabilized financially. Also at the time of her death she was in a career renaissance with fashion police and the Joan and Melissa show, her popular social media accounts and a lot of other business ventures that made her money and kept her in the spotlight.

In addition to what Joan left her, Melissa got close to $100 million after the lawsuits were settled.

Is Fashion Police still on after award shows?

R11 Melissa always was Joan's favorite charity.

She also told Howard Stern that in addition to the debts Edgar left her, any property of value (his estate) went straight to Melissa. Joan got his business debts from the contracts they both had signed, but Melissa ended up with the stuff and the trusts.

This casting will kill her all over again.

Kathryn Hahn to Play Comedy Icon Joan Rivers in ‘The Comeback Girl,’ a Limited Series in the Works at Showtime

“The Comeback Girl” is primarily set in the aftermath of the cancellation of “The Late Show,” which coincided with Rivers’ husband (and “Late Show” producer) Edgar Rosenberg’s death by suicide.

Joan had reached a point at which she wasn’t anything but her persona. She had to work because being Joan Rivers was all she had left.

It’s probably for the best she does when she did because as she aged and became more bitter she would have been thrown aside and forgotten. A fate worse than death for that type.

When you have the kinds of lows that Joan had in her life, you cling to whatever work you can get while thinking in the back of your mind that it could all go away tomorrow.

I thought it was very telling in that documentary that she shuddered at the thought of an empty calendar. This is the case for pretty much all entertainers whether they be actors, comedians, singers, etc. Their sole purpose in life is to entertain people and, if they're not doing that, not only are they not making money but they get incredibly depressed.

Joan Rivers was a performing ARTIST, in my opinion. Lots are artists never retire. They work until they die. Joan Rivers was an an independent and she made jobs for others. Her career supported other people.

She was very fortunate that she found a way to keep doing what fulfilled her - entertaining.

Andy Warhol once sat in an interview and the interviewer was coming at him for being so commercial and interested in money. He drolly said "Gotta bring home the bacon. Got a lotta mouths to feed."

It was the perfect Warholian answer. As in, don't be such a dumb bitch, and by the way, drop it.

Bile. Pure unmitigated bile.

I think Joan died at just the right time. I don't think I could handle a bunch of holier than thou 20 somethings trying to tear her down.

Doing what she loved most, OP, having plastic surgery.

I don't know, but it was the height of irony that someone who got so much elective surgery died getting a necessary medical procedure. RIP.

Keeping your mind busy is probably one of the best things you can do to live a long, healthy life. That woman had basically a full calendar of things going on up until she died.

Honestly? Keeping her weight down.

She loved being Joan Rivers... and in order to be Joan Rivers, she needed to keep a public profile, by working. She had plenty of money. She cleared up all her debt shortly after Edgar's death with talk show money. Was well invested in real estate. Was a big earner from TV Guide's Red Carpet shows, Fashion Police and other reality shows plus stand up gigs.

Badmouthing others to transfigure that Medusa Gorgon face.

Desperate rage. Imagine when she had left behind a comfy, stable life of a career, husband, etc. to perform in dives to a couple drunks? She must have felt like the biggest failure in the world.

She worked constantly all over the world for over 50 years, sold jewelry... making untold millions.

From my own personal experience, or view point, I think there is a connection to longevity and work, Work doesn't necessarily equate to fabulous personal wealth, but some amount of financial stability definitely plays a role, I think there's something to finding something that keeps you interested, busy, and interesting that keeps people going.

What that means to each individual can vary widely, but there is something to finding some purpose that keeps you getting up every day.