Billie Lourd Explains Not Inviting Mom Carrie Fisher's Siblings to Her Posthumous Walk of Fame Ceremony
etonline.comBillie Lourd is explaining why she did not invite Carrie Fisher's three siblings to her late mother's posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, saying there's no need for an invitation because she doesn't have a relationship with them.In a rare public statement given to, Lourd said she made a «conscious» decision not to invite Fisher's siblings — brother Todd Fisher, and sisters Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher — to Thursday's ceremony because, among other things, they allegedly profited off her mother's death.
The iconic princess died on Dec. 26, 2016 at 60. The next day, Fisher's mother and Lourd's grandmother, the iconic performer Debbie Reynolds, also died at 84.«Days after my mom died, her brother and her sister chose to process their grief publicly and capitalize on my mother’s death, by doing multiple interviews and selling individual books for a lot of money, with my mom and my grandmother’s deaths as the subject,» Lourd said in the statement. «I found out they had done this through the press.
They never consulted me or considered how this would affect our relationship,” reads Lourd’s statement. “Though I recognize they have every right to do whatever they choose, their actions were very hurtful to me at the most difficult time in my life.
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