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Billie Lourd Honors Carrie Fisher Nine Years After Her Death With Intimate Instagram Tribute

Her post draws renewed attention to the 2017 finding that sleep apnea caused Fisher’s death.

Overview

  • Billie Lourd shared that she will never stop missing her mother and said Fisher lives on through the joy she experiences with her children.
  • Lourd’s Instagram included two photos taken in the same room 25 years apart: one of Fisher and Bryan Lourd with a young Billie, and one of Bryan with her children.
  • Fisher died on Dec. 27, 2016 at age 60 after going into cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles, and her mother Debbie Reynolds died the next day.
  • The Los Angeles County Coroner’s report released in June 2017 listed sleep apnea as the cause of death, with atherosclerotic heart disease and drug use as contributing factors.
  • Toxicology findings cited multiple substances including cocaine, MDMA, methadone, alcohol and opiates, with the report noting possible heroin exposure that could not be timed.