Billie Lourd has no plans to stop talking about the grief she feels for her mother Carrie Fisher, nearly nine years on from the Star Wars icon’s passing at the age of 60.
Billie Lourd will never stop talking about grief.
The 33-year-old star’s mother Carrie Fisher passed away at the age of 60 in December 2016 and she explained that talking openly about the loss gives her a sense of purpose.
Billie told E! News: “One of the most gratifying and important things that I get to do is talking about grief, because people don’t talk about it enough.
“Before I experience it myself I didn’t have that many people that I could refer to that went through something similar. So, it feels like a really important thing for me to do, to talk about in an honest way, because it’s so complicated.”
Lourd explains that she still experiences a whole host of emotions about her mother, almost nine years on from the Star Wars legend’s passing.
She said: “You go through so many emotions, and all those emotions are okay. Some days I’m mad, some days I’m sad, some days it’s really lovely and light.”
The American Horror Story star honours Carrie’s Star Wars past with the sci-fi franchise inspired fashion line The Endor Collection and even walked through the Redwoods forest in Northern California, where her mother filmed the 1983 movie Return of the Jedi, with her kids.
Billie – who has son Kingston, five, and daughter Jackson, two, with her husband Austen Rydell – said: “That was one of the magical moments where she just felt so present.
“And it was all the good parts of her and those moments are few and far between. So, when I get to experience those parts of grief, I really hang on to them, and it’s a really gratifying thing to do.”
Billie explained that she regularly visits her mother’s grave and often brings the children with her so they know about their grandmother’s legacy.
She said: “It’s so weird to say I like to go to the grave, but I will go to her grave site and bring a coke and sit there with my kids and just talk about her.
“Because a lot of the time, because she’s not here, I don’t get the opportunity to talk about her. And it’s such an opportunity – I really see it as that – to get to share stories about her and sit with friends and talk to my husband about her.”
Billie Lourd won’t stop talking about grief
