Billie's DOUBLE LOSS

The actress tells what it was like to lose the two most precious people in her life

American Horror Story star Billie Lourd has revealed just how hard it was to lose her famous mother Carrie Fisher and iconic grandmother Debbie Reynolds a day apart almost five years ago.

“It was brutal,” tells Billie, 29, adding that her late mum and grandma were her “favourite people” and that she misses them every day.

Star Wars actress Carrie, 60, suffered a heart attack on a plane on December 23, 2016 and died in hospital four days later. Singing in the Rain star Debbie, 84, died of a stroke the day after her daughter’s death, leaving Billie traumatised and bereft.

Billie, who gave birth to her first child, son Kingston, in September last year, says she tried to avoid living in Carrie and Debbie’s shadows while they were alive. “Now I am kind of trying to do the opposite. I try to connect myself to them because I miss them.”

Carrie, says Billie, “was the greatest, funniest person ever”, but she hasn’t channelled her parenting style.