Scream Queens and Ticket to Paradise star Billie Lourd has issued a statement explaining why she doesn't want her late mother Carrie Fisher's siblings at her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame dedication ceremony Thursday.
"I apologize 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," the 30-year-old actress said in a statement to Variety Wednesday.
"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 she understands they have the right to do whatever they want, but wish they had taken her feelings into consideration.
"The truth of my mom's very complicated relationship with her family is only known by me and those who were actually close to her," she said. "I chose to and still choose to deal with her loss in a much different way."Todd Fisher told TMZ Tuesday, "It's heartbreaking and shocking to me that I was intentionally omitted from attending this important legacy event for my sister, Carrie."
"I was always a big part of everything my sister and mother did historically over their lifetimes," he added.
She died in 2016 at the age of 60. Her mother, screen icon Debbie Reynolds, died a day later. She was 84.
