Saw her once in person.
I was in univ., helping a journalism student with a piece on AIDS.
Joan did a fundraising talk at my univ to raise funds for a hospice,
which is all well and good.
She gave an interesting if narcissistic chat about her life, about
her plastic surgery, about how she got a tummy tuck right after giving
birth (her surgeon told her it was the vainest thing he'd ever heard,
but she didn't care), etc.
Then Joan's agent, carrying Joan's little toy yorkie Spike, came over
and demanded our tape. She had not given permission to broadcast
the tape.
We said (honestly) that the tape was for a journalism assignment,
that we were students, and that our equipment (labelled with our
university crest) was not from a real TV station, and that we
were not going to broadcast the material at all.
She sniffed at this, and then we said if she left her name and
number with the university they could send her a copy of our
finished report. (We weren't there to libel poor Joan.) She
decided not to, as she didn't want a bunch of reporters trying
to get into showbiz by calling her at all hours of the night.
Joan is laughably short. In heels, as she strode past me, she
barely came up to my shoulder, and I'm only 5'8". So that makes
her about 5'2" in heels, which means she's a dwarf. Ha ha!