Jerry Seinfeld comes across "heartbreaking" Joan Rivers text

Jerry Seinfeld is the latest star to pay public tribute to the late Joan Rivers.

The comedian revealed Monday that Rivers was to be the lead guest on the new season of his series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" and that she was "thrilled" to do it.

"I just came across this heartbreaking text on my phone from August 19th. I had asked Joan Rivers to be our lead guest on the new season of Comedians in Cars, and she was thrilled. Then we got a call saying she was going in for a medical procedure and needed to postpone," Seinfeld wrote on the "Comedians" Facebook page.

He added, "I would have loved to have shown another side of her. I wanted to tell her how much I admire all she had accomplished, especially in the latter stages of her career. She was one of the greats. I'll miss her."

Rivers died on Sept. 4, a week after she went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a routine procedure at an outpatient surgical clinic in New York City. The doctor who was head of that facility is no longer its medical director or performing procedures there, the clinic said last week.

Her life and career were remembered at a star-studded funeral in Manhattan attended by family and many celebrity friends, including Hugh Jackman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Whoopi Goldberg.