NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Comedian Joan Rivers is hosting two stand-up shows in New Orleans to benefit an organization that has been aimed at rebuilding the city in the years since Hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans Healing Center is run by a voodoo priestess, Sallie Ann Glassman, who is friends with Rivers. About 15 years ago, they met when Rivers thought her New York apartment was haunted. Rivers asked Glassman to perform a spiritual cleansing. Glassman wore a flowing white gown and chased off the disturbing spirits in a night of rituals. Rivers says Glassman's efforts worked. Rivers is returning the favor with the benefit shows. Glassman's healing center is an incubator for about two dozen businesses and organizations focused on what Glassman describes as the environmental, spiritual and economic healing of New Orleans."
Joan Rivers to host New Orleans comedy show
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FILE - This April 30, 2012 file photo shows comedian Joan Rivers at the E! Network upfront event at Gotham Hall in New York. When TV personality Joan Rivers thought her New York apartment was haunted some 15 years ago, she called on New Orleans voodoo priestess Sallie Ann Glassman to perform a "spiritual cleansing" of the old brownstone. Glassman tells the Associated Press that the unlikely pair became instant friends during that initial meeting, where Glassman wore a flowing white gown as she chased off disturbing spirits in the building. Next month, Rivers is heading to New Orleans to return the favor. The sharp-tongued comedian will be hosting two standup talk shows benefiting Glassman's New Orleans Healing Center _ a more than 50,000 square foot building housing some two dozen businesses and organizations focused on what Glassman describes as the "environmental, spiritual, economic, cultural, emotional and physical healing of New Orleans" following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
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FILE - This April 30, 2012 file photo shows comedian Joan Rivers at the E! Network upfront event at Gotham Hall in New York. When TV personality Joan Rivers thought her New York apartment was haunted some 15 years ago, she called on New Orleans voodoo priestess Sallie Ann Glassman to perform a "spiritual cleansing" of the old brownstone. Glassman tells the Associated Press that the unlikely pair became instant friends during that initial meeting, where Glassman wore a flowing white gown as she chased off disturbing spirits in the building. Next month, Rivers is heading to New Orleans to return the favor. The sharp-tongued comedian will be hosting two standup talk shows benefiting Glassman's New Orleans Healing Center _ a more than 50,000 square foot building housing some two dozen businesses and organizations focused on what Glassman describes as the "environmental, spiritual, economic, cultural, emotional and physical healing of New Orleans" following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
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