Melissa Rivers doesn't plan to watch . The 52-year-old daughter of the late Joan Rivers stopped by the podcast and revealed why she won't watch the scripted Amazon series.«I have to be 100% honest, I’ve never watched the show, and there’s a particular reason… I know it’s based on my mom and Phyllis Diller, a lot of these different women,» Melissa speculated of the series, which follows Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), a standup comedian on the rise in the late 1950s, much like Joan's real-life experience.«It was still so soon after my mom’s death and so raw to me,» Melissa added of the show, which premiered in 2017, three years after her mom's death.
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