Carrie Fisher's Sisters Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher Respond to Billie Lourd Calling Them Out (Exclusive)

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Carrie Fisher's half-sisters, Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher, are speaking out following Billie Lourd's comments ahead of her mother's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Thursday.Lourd confirmed that she had intentionally not invited Carrie's brother, Todd, or Joely and Tricia, in a statement made to  on Wednesday after she claimed the trio tried to profit off Carrie's death.Carrie died on Dec.

26, 2016 at 60 years old. The next day, the actress' mother — and Lourd's grandmother — the iconic performer Debbie Reynolds, died at 84.«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 claimed in her statement to . «I found out they had done this through the press.

They never consulted me or considered how this would affect our relationship.»«Though I recognize they have every right to do whatever they choose, their actions were very hurtful to me at the most difficult time in my life.

I chose to and still choose to deal with her loss in a much different way,» Lourd's statement continued.ET spoke with Joely — who was on the WGA picket line — and Tricia Leigh ahead of the ceremony on Thursday, where Tricia said the ordeal was both «hurtful» and «confusing.»«My sister, Joely, and I were not invited, and, you know, it was really hurtful and confusing,» Tricia said. «We didn't know why, and our message was not an attack on Billie.