Melissa Rivers
Several times Melissa Rivers referred to it as being like high school.
Once Rivers was kicked off, her mother, Joan, on the opposing team, walked off too.I kept all my emotions under control in the boardroom," Melissa said. "Am I pleased I blew up? No. Did I say what I think a lot of people wanted to say to the clique that threw them under the bus? Absolutely.
The incident was so explosive it became one of the "Hot Topics" on ABC's "The View."Melissa Rivers said her on-air tirade against her former teammates on NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice" Sunday night came simply because she had reached a breaking point.
That had been brewing for a while," Rivers told the Daily News Monday. "That was real emotion, absolutely real emotion."What the viewers initially saw suggested Roderick might go. That is, until Trump handed Jim Cramer - the CNBC host sitting in on the boardroom - a note saying Rivers should be fired.
She initially refused to do a post-firing interview, but said she went back the next day.Don't screw around with Joan Rivers," joked Joy Behar.
Indeed, after her daughter got the boot, Joan Rivers verbally lambasted Roderick and Duke, calling them, among other things, "white trash.
