--- description: The late night host teased the actress, who walked out of a CNN interview this weekend. title: David Letterman Walks Out During Joan Rivers Interview image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1dd91eb69cc5c01a/69869b09cd804d14e0ccbda9/joan-rivers-david-letterman.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # David Letterman Walks Out During Joan Rivers Interview by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 9, 2014 12:17 PM CUT  CBS by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 9, 2014 12:17 PM CUT Just last week, Joan Rivers [walked out](http://www.thewrap.com/joan-rivers-storms-out-of-live-cnn-interview-shut-up-video/ "undefined") of a live interview with CNN, frustrated with what she deemed “very judgmental, very nasty, very opinionated, very negative”questions. But Tuesday night, it was David Letterman’s turn to walk out during an interview with the 81-year-old actress. As the late night host teased Rivers for her on-camera behavior, he suggested that perhaps the whole affair was a PR stunt to promote Rivers’ new book, _Diary of a Mad Diva_ . But Rivers said: “just the opposite.” Watch the clip above for more on the exchange. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2969361/david-letterman-joan-rivers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2969361/david-letterman-joan-rivers/"},"headline":"David Letterman Walks Out During Joan Rivers Interview","datePublished":"2014-07-09T12:17:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:02:26.771Z","description":"This time, the actress got a taste of her own medicine","url":"https://time.com/2969361/david-letterman-joan-rivers/","keywords":["Television","Late Night","David Letterman","Late Night Highlight","joan rivers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1dd91eb69cc5c01a/69869b09cd804d14e0ccbda9/joan-rivers-david-letterman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1dd91eb69cc5c01a/69869b09cd804d14e0ccbda9/joan-rivers-david-letterman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joan Rivers David Letterman","caption":"Joan Rivers David Letterman","creditText":"CBS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2969361/david-letterman-joan-rivers/","name":"David Letterman Walks Out During Joan Rivers Interview"}}]}] ```