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Billie Lourd paid an emotional tribute to her late mother, Carrie Fisher, writing that she was “too young to die.”
THE Star Wars actor, who would have turned 68 today, died in 2016, aged 60.
On Instagram, Lourd, 32, wrote: “My mom would be 68 today. Dead people’s birthdays are strange, to say the least.
“Every year on my mother’s birthday I try to celebrate her as much as possible, but today I really wanted to celebrate it with her. Some years my pain makes me feel the warmth of her love, some years it makes me angry, some years I feel numb, but today when I woke up I just felt sad.”
Lourd, who will have a role in Pamela Anderson’s next film The Last Showgirlwent on to say that her grief inspired her to look for statistics related to premature death.
“I didn’t want to celebrate, I just wanted my mom,” she wrote. “My sadness grabbed me, so I Googled ‘woman with average age of death’ (ooohhh what a fun google billie!!! I promise the rest of my Google search history has a slightly more fun vibe?!) and Google said it was 80.2. My mother died when she was 60 years old. 60 is too young to die.
“So I Googled drug overdose deaths (another fun morning on Google!!!) and it’s over 100,000 people a year. I did everything in my power to help my mother get sober, but unfortunately my mother was never able to escape her addiction. But while she was alive, she always shared the ups and downs of this struggle with others, hoping it would help them escape their own addiction.
“As an addict, being open about the struggle is the only way. And the same goes for those of us affected by this struggle. Sending my love to anyone who has lost someone to drug addiction. You are not alone.”
Earlier this year, singer James Blunt revealed in his memoir that Lourd partially “blames” him for her mother’s death.
“Charlie, her best friend, confronted her more directly and told her she needed to stop doing drugs,” he wrote. “I took a different approach and did it with her, pretending to myself that one day I would guide her to redemption – but not today. As a result, his daughter Billie blames me in part for his death and no longer speaks to me.”
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Blunt and Fisher met through mutual friends in the 1990s and formed an unlikely bond. He ended up moving into her house in Los Angeles – where she and her mother, actress and singer Debbie Reynolds, also lived – and recorded her first album, in 2004. Back to the turmoilwhile I was there.
Blunt previously revealed she was with the Princess Leia actor the night before she was found unconscious on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She died days later, and a toxicology report found she had cocaine, heroin, MDMA and methadone in her system.
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