Melissa Rivers: Kathy Griffin 'Shit All Over' Joan Rivers' Legacy

Melissa Rivers, daughter of the late Joan Rivers, was interviewed by Hoda Kotb Tuesday and discussed the recent state of E!'s "Fashion Police," where she expressed her dissatisfaction with how Kathy Griffin, who replaced Joan on the style show, left the program, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Griffin was hired to replace Joan on "Fashion Police" in January but left in March amid controversy surrounding the jokes co-star Giuliana Rancic made about actress and singer Zendaya, who wore dreadlocks to the Oscars.

"I'm just going to say it wasn't a match on a lot of levels," Melissa said about Griffin replacing her mother. "My biggest complaint was the feeling that she kind of shit all over my mother's legacy in her statement on leaving. And I know that that was not an intentional reading of it, but that's how I felt. But I know that wasn't how it was intended.

"Everything was so heightened and everybody was so crazy, but that was my takeaway by [Griffin] calling the comedy and the style of it old-fashioned," she continued. "I understand what you're doing -- you're trying to save yourself, but don't crap all over my mother to do it, and that's how I felt."

Melissa said she was especially upset about the way "Fashion Police" turned out because it was one of the last connections she had with Joan, as they both worked on the show together.

"They took the last thing I had and smashed it," Melissa said, saying that Zendaya was partially to blame because of the way she reacted to Rancic's remarks.

Melissa said the show is in the process of returning to TV and that her mother would probably have loved all the drama surrounding "Fashion Police."

"There might be a little twinkle in her eye [if she could see what happened], saying, 'You all couldn't do it without me, could you?'" she said.

In a recent interview, the first one she gave since her mother's death, Melissa told the "Today" show's Matt Lauer that her mother's death was "100 percent preventable."

Watch the video below; Melissa makes her comments around the 18:55 mark.