Joan Rivers Won’t Apologize For Joke About Ariel Castro Victims

Joan Rivers, the queen of offensive comedy, may have finally gone too far.

Rivers was promoting her new reality television show, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?, when she compared living in her daughter’s guest room to being held hostage in the house of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro.

“Those women in the basement in Cleveland had more space, I mean it’s just the worst,” Rivers said, to gasps of shock from The Today Show’s hosts.

After the comment, social media lit up with backlash and outrage. But the 80-year-old comedian has refused to apologize for her remarks.

“There is nothing to apologize for. I made a joke, what’s what I do, ” she said. “They’re free, so let’s move on.”