Todd, Carrie Fisher’s brother, is publicly furious at not being invited to watch her posthumously receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
The Star Wars actress – who was witty and candid about her battle with addiction and bipolar disorder – died in 2016 at the age of 60 after going into cardiac arrest on an airplane with cocaine, morphine and ecstasy in her system.
A day later, her grief-stricken mother, Singin’ In The Rain star Debbie Reynolds, died of a stroke after telling Todd, “I want to be with Carrie.”
Now Todd, who was close to both Carrie and Debbie, has told TMZ it was the family that froze him off their 30-seat guest list.
“Honestly, it’s a harrowing situation and I don’t deserve to be put in this position,” Todd said, insisting that if Carrie had her way, he’d be asked about the event.
As they were: Carrie Fisher’s brother, Todd, is publicly furious about not being invited to watch her posthumously receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame; photo 2014
Throwback: Carrie, depicted in Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi, died in 2016 at age 60 after going into cardiac arrest with cocaine, morphine, and ecstasy in her system
“As the only brother of the Carrie Fisher, it’s really hurtful to be left out on this special day,” calling his exclusion “extremely hurtful and distressing, as I was always a big part of everything my sister and mother did historically throughout their life.’
He noted that he and Carrie were present when Debbie received her second star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in 1997 for a live performance.
Debbie received her first star on the Walk Of Fame for motion pictures in 1960, and five years later she did got to put her hand and footprints in front of what was then Grauman’s Chinese Theater with little Carrie and Todd in attendance.
Todd has now said that he himself initiated the process of getting Carrie a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, which she will finally receive on Thursday.
The date is May 4 — known as Star Wars Day because of the “May The Fourth Be With You” pun — and apparently the final seating arrangement is in the hands of Disney, which controls the sci-fi franchise.
Todd claims that when he protested his disapproval, Disney told him that Carrie’s family had already taken their assigned seats and the final decision was theirs.
To hear him tell it, he was also advised not to take the matter to Carrie’s daughter Billie Lourd and put more pressure on her.
Billie, who has followed in her family’s footsteps in acting, will be attending Thursday’s ceremony to receive the honors on behalf of her mother.
A day after losing Carrie, her mother Debbie Reynolds died of a stroke, after telling Todd, “I want to be with Carrie”; Debbie and Todd are pictured in 2011
Retro: Debbie, pictured with Carrie and Todd in 1985, shared her children with her first husband Eddie Fisher, who left the family to run off with Elizabeth Taylor
“It is heartbreaking and shocking to me that I was intentionally left out of attending this important legacy event for my sister, Carrie,” Todd said.
Todd and Carrie were Debbie’s children by her first husband Eddie Fisher, a singer who infamously abandoned the family to run off with Elizabeth Taylor.
Carrie was always blisteringly candid about her life, in semi-autobiographical novels like Postcards From The Edge and memoirs like Wishful Drinking.
Her acclaimed writing has included the screenplay for the Postcards From The Edge movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine, as well as a Wishful Drinking one-woman show that became an HBO special.
Two years after his mother and sister died, Todd wrote an intimate memoir of his own called My Girls: A Lifetime With Carrie And Debbie.
He confessed that Carrie was “a little angry with me” during their last conversation, in part because “there was always some other tension between mom’s family, especially myself, and Carrie, as it was related to her drug use at the time.”
Todd recalled, “But when Carrie and I came face to face, there was no way we could have all of that. It just melted away, because the blood, the bond between brother and sister, the bond, runs so deep.’
He wrote that Carrie “collapsed” in front of him the last time she spoke to him, saying, “We should be okay with each other.” It’s the base.’
Legacy: Carrie’s daughter Billie Lourd, who has followed in her family’s footsteps in acting, will attend Thursday’s ceremony to receive the honor on her mother’s behalf