Comedienne Joan Rivers missed a flight from Costa Rica to Los Angeles on Sunday after she was “held hostage” by airport security before boarding a flight to Newark, New Jersey. The sharp-tongued pundit ran into troubled when officials questioned the authenticity of her passport. The 76-year-old is listed as Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers on the passport – Rosenberg is Joan’s married name.
Police were called and Joan missed her flight, forcing the star spend another night in Costa Rica. She flew home on Monday morning. Security has been stepped up on flights all over the U.S. after a Nigerian-born terrorist attempted to detonate a bomb in his underwear during a flight from The Netherlands en route to Detroit on Christmas Day.