Billie Lourd remembers late mother Carrie Fisher on seven-year anniversary of her death: ‘She is with me every day’

Billie Lourd honored her late mother Carrie Fisher on Wednesday, on the seventh anniversary of the Star Wars actress' death.

'I miss her every day, but the cliché is also true: she is with me every day. She brings even more joy to my joyful moments,” the 31-year-old actress said on Instagram.

Lourd shared a photo of herself and her late mother on a beach with the emotional post.

“It's been seven years since my mother died (but who's counting? I guess?),” Lourd wrote. “Every birthday brings a different version of my sadness.”

Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars anthology, died on December 27, 2016 at the age of 60 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, four days after she suffered a heart attack during a flight from London to Los Angeles.

Billie Lourd, 31, honored her late mother Carrie Fisher on Wednesday, on the seventh anniversary of the Star Wars actress' death

Lourd shared a photo of herself and her late mother on a beach with the emotional post

Medical examiners subsequently found cocaine, ecstasy and heroin in Fisher's system at the time of her death.

Adding to the Hollywood tragedy, Fisher's mother and Billie's grandmother, Singin' in the Rain star Debbie Reynolds, died at the age of 84 after suffering a stroke on December 28, 2016 while she was planning Fisher's memorial.

On Wednesday, Lourd talked about the range of emotions she has experienced following the death of her mother.

“Some make me furious, some make me cry all day, some make me feel dissociated and empty, some make me feel nothing, some make me feel guilty for feeling nothing, and some make me that I feel all those things at once. the Los Angeles native said. “When I woke up this year, I felt grateful – or sad, if you will.”

“Grief has given my life a sense of appreciation that I have never had before. It makes me savor every moment of joy as if it were my last.”

Lourd has welcomed two children in the years since her mother's death, as she is mother to son Kingston, three, and daughter Jackson Joanne, one, with husband Austen Rydell, 31.

“Today I held my daughter as she napped in my arms and my eyes filled with tears of joy,” said Lourd, who has appeared in Scream Queens and American Horror Story. 'I laughed at myself and cried even more because I was laughing.

'I felt my mother's presence like the warmth of the sun on your skin on a hot summer day. The kind of warmth that makes you unconsciously close your eyes and breathe slowly through your nose and grin.”

Fisher and Lourd were photographed at an event in London in June 2016

Fisher's mother and Billie's grandmother, Singin' in the Rain star Debbie Reynolds, died at age 84 after suffering a stroke on December 28, 2016, while she was planning Fisher's memorial. Pictured in January 2015 in LA

Lourd honored her late mother earlier this year when she attended a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on May 4 (Star Wars Day) when Fisher was posthumously awarded a star

Lourd, whose father is CAA CEO Bryan Lourd, said she has often spoken about her late mother to her young children: “When I tell my son, she lives in the stars — and she certainly makes my life shine.”

Lourd ended by expressing her empathy for others who lost loved ones: “Sending my love to all my mourners out there. And I hope everyone can feel a spark of sadness among all the feelings that sadness inevitably brings.”

Lourd honored her late mother earlier this year when she attended a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on May 4 (Star Wars Day) as Fisher was posthumously awarded a star.

She said in a speech: 'Mama, you made it. My mother died six and a half years ago, and since then I have fallen deeply in love with Leia and the entire Star Wars universe. I buy every piece of Leia merchandise that Leia lays my eyes on.”

Last year, Lourd spoke on social media about her sadness that her mother was never able to meet her husband and their two children.

“My mother is not here to meet either of them and is not here to experience any of the magic,” she said. 'Sometimes the magical moments can also be the most difficult. That's the problem with sadness. I wish my mother was here, but she isn't.

“So all I can do is hold the magic harder, hug my kids a little tighter. Tell them a story about her. Share her favorite things with them. Tell them how much she would have loved them.”