Carrie Fisher was remembered by daughter Billie Lourd on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of her death.
The 33-year-old actress used Instagram to pay tribute to her mother, who died at age 60 on December 27, 2016.
Lourd, whom Fisher shared with Bryan Lourd, uploaded a throwback photo of her posing with her parents as a child.
The mother-of-two — who shares daughter Jackson, three, and son Kingston, five, with husband Austen Rydell — added a lengthy, heartfelt caption.
She began the note, ‘It has been 9 years since my mom died. My daughter woke up earlier than usual this morning so we went outside together and she knowingly laid her little head on my chest.
‘She looked up at me with her big soulful eyes and said “I love you mama” and grabbed my face with her little chubby hands and kissed me. She does this pretty much every morning and dare I say, there is no better way to wake up and no ritual I love more. I told her how much her grandmomby would have loved her and she looked up at me and kissed me again.’
Carrie Fisher was remembered by daughter Billie Lourd on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of her death; the pair seen in 2015
Fisher died at age 60 on December 27, 2016; seen in October 2016
Also included in the post was present-day photo of her dad with her two children.
She wrote that the photo of her with her parents, and the one of her dad with her kids were taken 25 years apart.
The Scream Queens star shared in her caption that she and her daughter ‘walked to breakfast with my dad and they ran around together like 2 old souls that have known each other forever.’
She gushed, ‘Watching my dad with my kids is one of the greatest joys I’ve ever known. The kind of joy that makes your face hurt because you can’t stop smiling, the kind of joy that makes you feel like your life is a movie you thought only existed in movies.
‘But then you take a step back and realize that it’s better than any movie could ever be.’
Lourd then pointed back to her mom, adding, ‘Then I started thinking about how this joy wouldn’t be possible without my mom. This joy only exists because she existed. So even though she is not physically part of this joy, she is part of the reason for it.’
Honoring her mother’s memory, she continued, ‘Even though she is not alive she lives on through this joy. My grief takes on many shapes – today, right now in this moment, that shape is this joy I get to experience watching my kids with my dad.’
And she predicted, ‘It could and will change shapes multiple times throughout this day because grief is never just one thing but right now I am relishing in this bittersweet [griefful] joy.’
The 33-year-old actress used Instagram to pay tribute to her mother
Lourd, whom Fisher shared with Bryan Lourd, uploaded a throwback photo of her posing with her parents as a child
Also included in the post was a present-day photo of Lourd’s dad with her two young children
‘Even though she is not alive she lives on through this joy,’ Lourd wrote of her late mom; seen in 2016
The thoughtful message went on, ‘As my mom wisely said, “Nothing is ever really over. Just over there”. My mombys life isn’t really over. Just over there – in my kids and in this joy I’m able to experience because of her. Thank you momby. I will never stop missing you..’
Fisher went into cardiac arrest, with drugs found in her system during post-mortem tests, nearly a decade ago.
In October 2024, on what would have been her mother’s 68th birthday, Lourd acknowledged her mother’s longtime battle with drug addiction.
She said on Instagram at the time: ‘My mom died when she was 60. 60 is too damn young to die.
‘I did everything in my power to help my mom get sober but sadly my mom couldn’t ever escape her addiction.’
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