Open Post: Hosted By Margaret Cho Confirming That Joan Rivers Drank Wine Out Of A Starbucks Cup During “Fashion Police”

A few years ago, the late, great Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa Rivers claimed that Joan used to drink a little morning time Chardonnay out of a coffee cup while filming E!’s Fashion Police at 7 in the morning. Margaret Cho went on the PEOPLE podcast and backed Melissa up. Margaret worked with Joan on Fashion Police and she explained that they would film at “really weird” hours in order to cover the previous evening’s award show. Like at 4:00 AM. And while the other hosts would chug coffee to wake their asses up, Ms. Joan, who passed away in 2014 at the age of 81 (her face was only 17), opted for something a little more creative; she’d empty out her giant Starbucks cup and fill it with white wine. All the better to shit on celebrity fashion with, my dear!

Margaret says Joan would already be at the studio when she arrived in the wee hours of the morn. via People:

While everyone else would be sipping on coffee for a jolt of caffeine, Rivers’ approach was a little bit different, Cho says. “Sometimes what she would do is she would take her giant Starbucks cup and then empty it, and fill it with Chardonnay. And just drink her Chardonnay out of her Starbucks cup, which I thought was genius.”

Agreed. Pure genius! Wino forever! Unless it’s a problem, of course. But let’s be real, the only thing Joan was addicted to was cosmetic surgery and one-liners from the seventies. Margaret adds that she loved working on Fashion Police, and even though episodes took a really long time to film, the hosts would hang around after wrapping and listen to Joan’s stories:

“We would just talk about how she was part of British Hollywood. Edgar [Rosenberg], her late husband, was British and he was a producer,” Cho tells podcast hosts Jason Sheeler and Andrea Lavinthal. “They would have Laurence Olivier over for dinner and so she had all of the old stars over her house. She would host these parties that would just get crazy.”

Margaret goes on:

“She [Joan] loved doing Fashion Police and she was really excited about it. I think she was really influential on social media because it made the bridge between show business and real people possible.”

So if social media and celebrity culture is throwing your mental health for a loop, take it up with Joan when you get to hell. She’ll be the one sitting on the throne sipping the Starbucks cup full of Chardonnay.

Pic: E! via The Daily Mail