How Billie Lourd Explained Mom Carrie Fisher’s Cause of Death to 5-Year-Old Son
Billie Lourd runs in many exclusive circles, but there’s one club she never wanted to be a part of.
And yet since losing mom Carrie Fisher two days after Christmas in 2016, she’s been a member of the Dead Parent Club.
In the almost decade since, the actress, 33, has turned her heartbreak into purpose by sharing her experiences with loss—including her innermost thoughts and the many highs and lows—with the world.
So it was to be expected that Billie would begin our grief chat with an enthusiastic, “We love the club!” And it didn’t take long to see how large a role her membership plays in her life.
“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,” she continued. “Before I experienced 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.”
Take, for instance, the Scream Queens alum’s reflection on what should have been Carrie’s 69th birthday.