Joan Rivers recalls when she got fired from her late night show then her husband killed himself

All kinds of fascinating videos of Joan Rivers are popping up on YouTube and some of it is material I have never seen before – and not comedy-oriented.

We all know that comics are very serious people underneath and Joan was no exception. The first clip from from an interview she did for the Television Academy’s TV legends series and it is heartbreaking what she went through when she was fired from her Fox show then her husband committed suicide.

The video below is an in-depth Interview with Dr. Pamela Stephenson and it delves into her body image, her bulimia, her parents, her feelings of being betrayed. We also learn that when she was going through her worst time – post-Fox and husband’s suicide – the psychologist who was helping her began to die of AIDS. This is the one time she really cries in the interview.