he wrote on Instagram. Your birthday feels like my birthday! And in a new interview, the 25-year-old revealed her late mother, Carrie Fisher, almost adopted to make that happen.
[27] The film was released on July 17, 2018. Closer Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. “Carrie wasn’t the perfect mom, but in the last couple of years, [her] relationship [with Billie] became very solid,” the friend said. After news of her mother's death broke, Billie said her mother “battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life and ultimately died of it.”. She has a sister, Ava, from her father's marriage to Bruce Bozzi, whom her father legally adopted. They have traveled the world together, enjoyed holidays, and even adopted a dog together. The Booksmart actress, 28 welcomed her first child with fiancé Austen Rydell, she announced on Instagram Thursday. [42], In late June 2020, it was announced that Lourd is engaged to her boyfriend, actor Austen Rydell. I asked for a sister,” Billie told Town & Country Magazine. Since he started dating Billie, the two have enjoyed a long and adventurous relationship. [36][37] Murphy stated that her work in 1984 impressed him so much that he decided to write Lourd her own miniseries. [35] Lourd also returned to American Horror Story for its ninth season, 1984, portraying serial killer-chased punk rocker Montana Duke. Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Do Austen Rydell and Billie Lourd have children? After months (and months) of speculation that the E! She's a feeling. In December 2017, Rydell joined Lourd for a trip to Norway in honor of the one-year anniversary of the actress' mother's death. Carrie Fisher is Princess Leia. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Both her grandmother Debbie Reynolds and her mother Carrie Fisher passed away one day apart from each other in December 2016. "I grew up with three parents: a mom, a dad and Princess Leia," Lourd wrote in an essay for Time in November 2019. ", Gallery: 54 celebrities you probably didn't realize were related (INSIDER), Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Taylor's family joins protesters in Louisville, Mushrooms could be linked to salmonella outbreak. She is the daughter … She and her longtime beau, musician Ezra Koenig, named their son Isaiah Jones Koenig. Lourd is the daughter of the late Carrie Fisher, who was well known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise. As we thank the angel of a woman that carried our miracle baby boy for us, we pray for everyone who struggles to reach this joyous milestone. When Leia was around, there wasn't as much room for my mom — for Carrie. It was an eventful week of quarantine for Booksmart actress Billie Lourd, 28, and her longtime accomplice, Austen Rydell, 28.She introduced the start of their son, Kingston Fisher Lourd Rydell, by posting a photograph of his child toes to Instagram on Thursday. And in a new interview, the 25-year-old revealed her late mother, Carrie Fisher, almost adopted to make that happen. It's an offer, not an audition. A post shared by Billie Lourd (@praisethelourd) on Sep 24, 2020 at 5:06pm PDT. [7] From her mother's side, she is of Russian-Jewish and Scots-Irish/English descent. The Force is strong with this little one! Lourd is also the only grandchild of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, and the niece of Todd Fisher, Joely Fisher, and Tricia Leigh Fisher, all of whom have worked in show business. She released an especially intimate, 11-minute video documenting her pregnancy journey behind closed doors. Lourd, who is the daughter of Fisher and Bryan Lourd, has previously spoken about her childhood with the famous Star Wars actress. [38] She appeared in the ninth episode of the eleventh and final season of the NBC sitcom Will & Grace as Fiona, the granddaughter of the character that her real-life grandmother, Debbie Reynolds, portrayed during the show's original run.
Entertainment Television, LLC A Division of NBCUniversal. She’s the best work I’ve ever produced.'”. I didn't think he wanted to hire me, I knew that's not how things worked. The baby's moniker is a heartfelt tribute to the late, great Star Wars actress and Billie's mom, Carrie Fisher.