Billie Lourd broke her silence on her decision to not invite her late mother Carrie Fisher’s siblings to the actress’ upcoming Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.“I have seen the postings and press release issued by my mother’s brother and sister,” the Scream Queens alum, 30, said in a statement obtained by Variety on Wednesday, May 3. “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 message continued: “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.
I found out they had done this through the press. They never consulted me or considered how this would affect our relationship.
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