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"Joan Rivers has always been one of the most outspoken people in Hollywood, so imagine what it must be like being her daughter! Well, we&amp;#039;re getting a little insight into that with the third season of Joan &amp;amp; Melissa: Joan Knows Best, which kicks off in the UK on E! on Monday. To celebrate, we called up Melissa to chat about her son morphing into a teenager, her relationship with her mom, finding love in London and much more...  You&amp;#039;re back for a third season! &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re actually shooting our fourth season right now!&amp;quot; I heard you&amp;#039;d been renewed. How long do you think you&amp;#039;ll be doing the show? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know. Until there&amp;#039;s nothing left to say. I mean, you don&amp;#039;t want to get repetitive. But as long as there&amp;#039;s interesting things going on, we&amp;#039;ll stay at it.&amp;quot; It seems like there is always a lot of stuff going on for you and your mom. &amp;quot;Well, it is my mom! But also, there&amp;#039;s so many changes in my life as we&amp;#039;re shooting season four, because my son&amp;#039;s growing up and it&amp;#039;s a whole new dynamic for me.&amp;quot; How is Cooper? What&amp;#039;s it like having an almost-teenager around? How are you dealing with all of that? &amp;quot;Well, you see the beginning of it in season three. I&amp;#039;m very fortunate in a lot of ways with him, that his whole life he has been like a textbook. You read all the books and they say, &amp;#039;Oh, between this age and this age he&amp;#039;ll do this, and between this age and this age he&amp;#039;ll do that&amp;#039;. He literally is like that, you could make a calendar by him. He&amp;#039;s 12 and he turns 13 next month, he&amp;#039;s in seventh grade, and I&amp;#039;ve got to tell you, this is not the most charming age! I put something on my Twitter the other day asking if anyone had a Grunt to English dictionary, because apparently he speaks in Grunt! My Twitter blew up, because it was like, &amp;#039;Oh, you have no idea, at least he&amp;#039;s still grunting at you&amp;#039;. So it&amp;#039;s a challenge. He&amp;#039;s still a lovely, wonderful, great [kid]. He has good grades, he&amp;#039;s a great athlete, he&amp;#039;s a good person. But you know, he now comes home and shuts the door. He always used to be like, &amp;#039;Mommy, can I come and watch TV with you? Mommy, can you come and sit with me? Mommy, can you come and hang out in my room?&amp;#039; Now he&amp;#039;s like, &amp;#039;Hey!&amp;#039; and comes in and shuts the door.&amp;quot; Is that tough for you? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s horrible, I&amp;#039;m dying! The other day I knocked on the door like, &amp;#039;Can I come in?&amp;#039; and he looks up from the computer like, &amp;#039;What?&amp;#039; I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;#039;Is it okay if I watch TV in here with you?&amp;#039; and he says, &amp;#039;Yeah, it&amp;#039;s fine&amp;#039;, so I&amp;#039;m laying on his bed watching TV and he&amp;#039;s got his headphones on and is on the computer. I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;#039;My baby!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; You just have to get through these few years! &amp;quot;Yeah. He&amp;#039;s such a good kid, but that moment really hit home - literally, a year ago, we would have been sitting in the kitchen watching football together.&amp;quot;  How does he feel about being on the show? Is it kind of cool at school that he&amp;#039;s on the show, or does he not enjoy it that much? &amp;quot;I think because again we&amp;#039;re in our fourth season, which is like our fifth year of production, he&amp;#039;s like, &amp;#039;Whatever&amp;#039;. He loves our crew - we&amp;#039;ve had mostly the same exact people every season so they&amp;#039;re a big part of his life. And again, it&amp;#039;s kind of how I was raised with my parents&amp;#039; offices always in our home. It&amp;#039;s a little bit like being raised over the shop. It&amp;#039;s just something that&amp;#039;s there.&amp;quot; You work with your mom and you live with her... &amp;quot;...No, she lives with me! It&amp;#039;s a big difference! I remind her of this every day...&amp;quot; Fair enough! Does it ever get too much? &amp;quot;Too much? Please, you&amp;#039;ll see me in therapy in season three! Is that because of her? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s because of everyone! Just people. But yes, of course. She is here four days a week, and that&amp;#039;s very difficult.&amp;quot; How do you deal with that then? &amp;quot;I sit in my closet and lock the door and sit in the dark and rock back and forth! No, I&amp;#039;m very lucky to have her. We&amp;#039;re all so busy. The other day, my mom came in, she&amp;#039;d been on the road, and she came in and I think it was 11 o&amp;#039;clock at night and I went downstairs to talk to her and make sure she didn&amp;#039;t need anything, and we sat and we talked for like 20 minutes. And I went upstairs and I went to bed, and I woke up and she&amp;#039;d emailed me from downstairs - which I think is hilarious - saying, &amp;#039;I miss talking to you&amp;#039;. Because we&amp;#039;re literally all so busy that, who has time to just sit and visit? When we have that downtime, it&amp;#039;s super.&amp;quot; You don&amp;#039;t argue too much then? &amp;quot;Oh, no more than a normal mother-daughter. It could be daily to monthly to three months to nothing to a week of hell.&amp;quot;  You mentioned just now that you have therapy this season - did you consider keeping that secret at all? How was it sharing that with viewers? &amp;quot;I got talked into it, and I&amp;#039;m really glad I did. Because we really got to dig in a little bit to some topics that a lot of people here responded to.&amp;quot; What sort of things? &amp;quot;Well, the fact that my son is growing up. And as much as I work and do this, so much of our identity is being &amp;#039;mom&amp;#039;. And suddenly you turn around and go, &amp;#039;Now what?&amp;#039; And my mom turning 80. There&amp;#039;s a lot of big milestones in my life. And fear. Fear of, &amp;#039;Now what?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; What do you think you learnt about yourself? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think I learnt anything that I didn&amp;#039;t already know. But I also dealt with letting go of stuff.&amp;quot; Did it give you a new perspective on your mom, thinking about when you were a teenager? &amp;quot;Oh, I&amp;#039;m never allowed to forget it, believe me. Do you know how many times she just sits and laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs at me? Oh, she says, &amp;#039;You did the same thing!&amp;#039; Laughing and laughing and laughing, I get that all the time.&amp;quot; Obviously the person that we see as your mom, you must see her so much differently... Or is she the same person as a mom? &amp;quot;No, she&amp;#039;s very different. Very. She&amp;#039;s very smart. I mean, a lot of what you see is very her - the humour, the silliness. That&amp;#039;s all her. But she&amp;#039;s very smart and very sensitive.&amp;quot;  I heard we might see you looking for love this season... &amp;quot;Yes! I sort of throw myself back out there. I met someone lovely! I met someone so nice.&amp;quot;  But having it on camera, was that strange at all? &amp;quot;I think it was stranger for him. He lives in London. I&amp;#039;ve been and back. And then you get to see what&amp;#039;s going on now in season four. It&amp;#039;s a real struggle not to live in the same city, let alone the same country as someone.&amp;quot; How do you keep that going then? &amp;quot;Well I&amp;#039;m not going to give away season four before you even get to see season three!&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;ve got to let me try at least! &amp;quot;Yeah, of course! I respect you for asking because I would ask the same question! But I&amp;#039;ll tell you he&amp;#039;s in season four.&amp;quot; Obviously the relationship lasted long enough for you to get to season four - how did you deal with that? Was there Skypeing? &amp;quot;Skype, calls, and we get together when we can. But it&amp;#039;s also about, you know, love isn&amp;#039;t easy. Or it has never been for me. You&amp;#039;re just in the beginning of this, where it seems not that hard to meet people and this and that and the other. But when you suddenly are a fully fledged adult with a child and with a career and a business and everybody - especially over the age of 35 - has got their baggage, it&amp;#039;s very hard to make two lives work in sync. Let alone living near each other. Because the person you meet might not live anywhere near you. It&amp;#039;s tough, I have a ton of girlfriends going through the same thing.&amp;quot; Do you think there are issues on your show that everyone can relate to? &amp;quot;Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, it&amp;#039;s what makes our show work. There&amp;#039;s a lot of humour and a lot of real issues.&amp;quot; Do you have a favourite moment from this season? &amp;quot;Any moment with my son. You know, I&amp;#039;m feeling a little nostalgic because he&amp;#039;s gone on a school trip this week so I kind of miss him. Ask me next week, and I&amp;#039;ll tell you the days he&amp;#039;s away! This week it&amp;#039;s any time I&amp;#039;m with him, next week it&amp;#039;ll be any time I&amp;#039;m away from him!&amp;quot; The Joan &amp;amp; Melissa: Joan Knows Best season premiere airs Monday, October 14 at 9pm on E! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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