--- title: Star Wars Celebration: Billie Lourd Carrie Fisher Tribute description: Billie Lourd took the stage at Star Wars Celebration to pay tribute to the late Carrie Fisher — her mother and the beloved Princess Leia. canonical: https://time.com/4738820/star-wars-celebration-billie-lourd-carrie-fisher-tribute/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-13T17:10:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:47.437Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Billie Lourd's Star Wars Celebration Tribute to Mom Carrie Fisher og:description: "My mom, like Leia, wasn’t ever afraid to speak her mind" og:url: https://time.com/4738820/star-wars-celebration-billie-lourd-carrie-fisher-tribute/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5180e4343b2f3a72/6988b4142dce019c969ebcfe/carrie-fisher-dead-11.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Billie Lourd's Star Wars Celebration Tribute to Mom Carrie Fisher twitter:description: "My mom, like Leia, wasn’t ever afraid to speak her mind" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5180e4343b2f3a72/6988b4142dce019c969ebcfe/carrie-fisher-dead-11.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Billie Lourd's Emotional _Star Wars_ Celebration Tribute to Mom Carrie Fisher  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 13, 2017 5:10 PM UTC  Star Wars, Princess Leia Organa, 1977 Star Wars, Princess Leia Organa, 1977Lucasfilm Ltd.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 13, 2017 5:10 PM UTC After appearances by [Mark Hamill](http://time.com/4649004/mark-hamill-star-wars/) and Harrison Ford at [_Star Wars_ Celebration’s](http://time.com/4735331/star-wars-celebration-live-stream-how-to-watch/) “40 Years of _Star Wars_” Thursday panel, Bille Lourd — the daughter of the [late Carrie Fisher](http://motto.time.com/4626594/carrie-fisher-star-wars-women/) — took the stage to pay tribute to the sorely missed final member of the galaxy far, far away trio. “My mom used to say she never knew where Princess Leia ended and Carrie Fisher began. She went from being an unknown actress — the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher — to Princess Leia,” Lourd said. “She was imperfect in many ways but her imperfections and willingness to speak about them are what made her more than perfect. My mom, like Leia, wasn’t ever afraid to speak her mind and say things that might have made most people uncomfortable.” > [](https://twitter.com/GMA/status/852559202346090496) Fisher passed away in December at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4738820/star-wars-celebration-billie-lourd-carrie-fisher-tribute/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4738820/star-wars-celebration-billie-lourd-carrie-fisher-tribute/"},"headline":"Watch Billie Lourd's Emotional Star Wars Celebration Tribute to Mom Carrie Fisher","datePublished":"2017-04-13T17:10:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:47.437Z","description":"\"My mom, like Leia, wasn’t ever afraid to speak her mind\"","url":"https://time.com/4738820/star-wars-celebration-billie-lourd-carrie-fisher-tribute/","keywords":["celebrities","Newsfeed","movies","Star Wars topic","carrie fisher"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5180e4343b2f3a72/6988b4142dce019c969ebcfe/carrie-fisher-dead-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5180e4343b2f3a72/6988b4142dce019c969ebcfe/carrie-fisher-dead-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford","caption":"Star Wars, Princess Leia Organa, 1977.","creditText":"Lucasfilm Ltd.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4738820/star-wars-celebration-billie-lourd-carrie-fisher-tribute/","name":"Watch Billie Lourd's Emotional Star Wars Celebration Tribute to Mom Carrie Fisher"}}]}] ```