Practically 7 years after her loss of life, Carrie Fisher is obtaining a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame on May possibly 4. This honor is a sweet minute for the Star Wars actor’s legacy even so, it is been overshadowed by statements from her siblings that they weren’t invited to the celebration. Right after times of accusations, Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd verified her conclusion to exclude them from the ceremony, and the cause speaks to several years of personal family drama.

In advance of the star induction, Lourd issued a assertion to The Hollywood Reporter on Could 3 stating her mother’s siblings — Todd, Joely, and Tricia Fisher — “know why” they weren’t invited. She for starters apologized for publicly addressing her relative’s statements, as the actor has usually been private about her personal life. Nonetheless, she pointed out she felt “the need to have to defend” herself from the graphic they ended up portray of her in the push.

Lourd then set the record straight as to why she held their invitation to the ceremony. “Days immediately after my mother died, her brother and her sister chose to course of action their grief publicly and capitalize on my mother’s loss of life, by undertaking several interviews and marketing unique guides for a ton of money,” she claimed, including the siblings also exploited the demise of her grandmother, Debbie Reynolds, for their own acquire.

In December 2016, Carrie died soon after struggling a heart attack even though on a flight to Los Angeles. That identical month, Reynolds died adhering to a stroke. Shortly right after their sudden fatalities, Joely and Todd unveiled their personal unique memoirs (2017’s Escalating Up Fisher and 2018’s My Women: A Life span with Carrie and Debbie), which Lourd shared in the statement didn’t sit right with her.

“I found out they experienced completed this through the push. They in no way consulted me or thought of how this would have an affect on our marriage. The reality of my mom’s quite complicated marriage with her loved ones is only recognized by me and those who were being really shut to her,” she explained. “Though I figure out they have each individual right to do no matter what they select, their steps ended up pretty hurtful to me at the most difficult time in my life. I selected to and even now opt for to offer with her loss in a considerably diverse way.”

However a personal man or woman, Lourd has grieved her late mom and grandmother by penning tributes to them on Instagram. These sweet markings ordinarily occur on their respective birthdays and anniversaries of their loss of life, and she’s extended that homage to her have household tree. In Sept. 2020, the American Horror Tale star discovered she to some degree named her son, Kingston Fisher Lourd Rydell, after her mom. Then, in March 2022, Lourd’s wedding ceremony with partner Austen Rydell — whom she shares with Kingston — bundled quite a few endearing particulars inspired by Carrie.

In her statement, Lourd pointed out the siblings’ general public antics additional cemented her conclusion to not invite them to the ceremony. On Might 2, Todd reportedly told TMZ he was “shocked” that was not permitted to attend the Walk of Fame. The next working day, Joely and Tricia released a joint assertion on Joely’s Instagram confirming they had been also not invited.

“In reaction to all of you inquiring regardless of whether or not we will be component of the celebration… Surprisingly we will not be in attendance to celebrate our sister, whom we adored,” Joely wrote in the write-up. “For some bizarre, misguided rationale our niece has picked out not to contain us in this epic moment in our sister’s job.”

Lourd closed out her assertion by sharing that she and Carrie’s siblings “have no relationship” and needs to refocus the focus on honoring her mother’s legacy. “The men and women who understood and loved my mother at Disney and Lucasfilm have manufactured this star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame to honor her legacy attainable. This minute is about Carrie Fisher and all that she achieved and what she meant to the planet. I’m going to emphasis on that. May perhaps the 4th be with you,” she claimed.