'Star Wars' actress Carrie Fisher honored with star on Hollywood Walk of Fame amid family drama
foxnews.comThe Force is strong with Carrie Fisher's family, friends and fans. On Thursday, May 4 – also known as "Star Wars Day" ("May the Fourth"), the late actress who played the iconic Princess Leia in the beloved film saga was honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Her daughter, Billie Lourd, was in attendance and spoke about how much the honor would have meant to her mother. "I'd like to say thank you so much to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for this incredible honor.
I know my mom would just be so excited and grateful," she said during her speech. When speaking to the fans, she added, "The Force is obviously always with you." Billie said her mother didn't think someone was famous until they became a Pez dispenser, but Billie said fame is when you have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Now that Carrie has both, Billie noted, "Mama, you've made it." The actress confessed that growing up she thought her mother was "a lot embarrassing" and that Fisher tried to change her perspective by showing her the "cool movie she was in, ‘Star Wars.’" Lourd said she would just "roll my eyes and yell, ‘It’s too loud, Mommy!'" She admitted she finally gave in and watched the movie when she was in middle school because boys started coming up to her and telling her they "fantasized" about her mother.
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