Melissa Rivers says her mother, Joan Rivers, once told her Thanksgiving was just about the pilgrims being “bad guests”. The 53-year-old actress has opened up on some of the white lies her late mother and comedy icon Joan – who passed away in 2014 – used to tell her as a child in her upcoming book, ‘Lies My Mother Told Me: Tall Tales from a Short Woman’.
And speaking about one lie in particular ahead of the book’s release next year, Melissa said she was told that the American holiday of Thanksgiving was simply a life lesson on being a good dinner party guest.
She said: “[In the book] we write my mother’s version of telling me the story of the first Thanksgiving. It’s all based on the premise that the pilgrims were terrible guests. “The.
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