Billie Lourd paid emotional tribute to her mother, Carrie Fisher, on the ninth anniversary of her death.
“It has been 9 years since my mom died,” Lourd captioned a throwback photo with the “Star Wars” actress, who died on Dec. 27, 2016, and Billie’s father Bryan Lourd.
The “American Horror Story” actress then related a joyful moment she shared with her own daughter Jackson, 3, and how she “started thinking about how this joy wouldn’t be possible without my mom.”
“This joy only exists because she existed,” Billie, 33, wrote. The actress continued, noting that even though her mom “is not physically part of this joy, she is part of the reason for it” and that Fisher “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,” Lourd — who included a photo of Jackson and son Kingston, 5, with Bryan in the post — shared.
“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 grieful joy.”
“As my mom wisely said, ‘Nothing is ever really over. Just over there,’” the “Last Showgirl” actress wrote.
“My mombys life isnt 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.”
Billie concluded the post by noting that the two photos — one with Bryan, Billie, and Fisher, and one with Bryan with Billie’s two children — “were taken in the same room 25 years apart ❤️”
Fisher — the daughter of screen icons Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher — died in Los Angeles in 2016 after going into cardiac arrest and falling into a days-long coma. She was 60.
Reynolds shockingly passed away one day after Fisher’s death from a stroke on Dec. 28, 2016, at the age of 84.
“She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases,” Lourd explained, adding that her mother “ultimately died of it.”
The “Scream Queens” star went on to welcome son Kingston with Austen Rydell in 2020, whom she married in March 2022. The couple welcomed daughter Jackson in December 2022.
Billie previously memorialized her mother on the seventh anniversary of her death in 2023, sharing that she cried “tears of joy” as she held Jackson, who was 1 year old at the time.
“I felt my mombys [sic] presence like the warmth of the sun on your skin on a hot summer day,” she wrote.
