Carrie Fisher’s daughter issues bombshell statement about family feud

Billie Lourd, daughter of late Star Wars legend Carrie Fisher, has released a fiery statement addressing a bitter family feud.

Actress Billie Lourd lost her mother Carrie Fisher in 2016 from a heart attack. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Billie Lourd, the daughter of late actress Carrie Fisher, has revealed why she did not invite her mother’s siblings to the Star Wars icons Walk of Fame ceremony in LA.

The event will fittingly take place on May the fourth, US time, with Fisher set to receive a posthumous star on the famous stretch on Hollywood Boulevard. But while Lourd will be front and centre at the special ceremony, her mother’s family will not.

In a bombshell statement obtained by Entertainment Weekly, Lourd, 30, explained she snubbed her uncle and aunts from the event because she claims they tried to capitalise on Fisher’s death from a heart attack in 2016.

Actress Billie Lourd lost her mother Carrie Fisher in 2016 from a heart attack. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

“I have seen the postings and press release issued by my mother’s brother and sister,” Lourd said in the statement released on the eve of the ceremony.

“I apologise to anyone reading this for feeling the need to defend myself publicly from these family members. But unfortunately, because they publicly attacked me, I have to publicly respond. The truth is I did not invite them to this ceremony. They know why.”

Carrie Fisher and mum Debbie Reynolds died within one day of each other in December 2016. Picture: AFP

Lourd – who recently starred in the Julia Roberts and George Clooney film Ticket to Paradise – went on to say her relatives “chose to process their grief publicly” by doing “multiple interviews and selling individual books” in the wake of Fisher’s death.

She claimed they also tried to bank in on the death of her grandmother, actress Debbie Reynolds, who died from a stroke one day after Fisher.

“I found out they had done this through the press. They never consulted me or considered how this would effect our relationship,” Lourd wrote, adding that it was “very hurtful to me at the most difficult time in my life”.

Lourd’s statement comes one day after the family expressed their disappointment over not being invited to the Walk of Fame ceremony.

Carrie Fisher with her half-sisters Tricia and Joely. Picture: Instagram

Fisher’s brother, Todd, told TMZ that it was “heartbreaking and shocking to me that I was intentionally omitted from attending this important legacy event for my sister. Frankly, it’s a distressing situation”.

Fisher’s half-sisters, actresses Tricia Leigh Fisher and Joely Fisher, posted happy throwback photos on Instagram of the three of them together.

“For some bizarre, misguided reason our niece has chosen not to include us in this epic moment in our sister’s career,” Joely wrote. “The fact that her only brother and two sisters were intentionally and deliberately excluded is deeply shocking.”