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Billie Lourd Marks 9 Years Since Carrie Fisher’s Death With Heartfelt Tribute

Her post coincides with renewed attention to the 2017 coroner’s report that identified sleep apnea and atherosclerotic heart disease, with drug use noted as a contributing factor.

Overview

  • On Instagram, Lourd said she will “never stop missing” her mother and reflected that Fisher “lives on” through the joy she experiences with her children.
  • She shared a 25-year-old photo with Fisher and Bryan Lourd alongside a new image of Bryan with her two kids, noting both were taken in the same room.
  • Fisher died on Dec. 27, 2016, at 60 after suffering cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles; her mother Debbie Reynolds died the next day at 84.
  • The autopsy released in June 2017 reported death from sleep apnea, with atherosclerotic heart disease and drug use listed as contributing factors, and the family requested CT scans instead of a full dissection.
  • Toxicology found cocaine, MDMA, methadone, alcohol, and opiates including morphine, while possible heroin exposure could not be timed or tied to the cause of death.