James Blunt Reveals Billie Lourd Blames Him For Mom Carrie Fisher’s Death

James Blunt revealed that Carrie Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd, blames him for her mother’s death in 2016. 

In his new memoir, Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story, Blunt detailed how he and Fisher were close friends who began using drugs together, which led him and Lourd to have a falling out.

Blunt and Fisher were last together the night before she was found unresponsive while on a flight to Los Angeles. 

While there was no definitive cause of death, it was found that Fisher had a mixture of drugs in her system that led her to have a cardiac arrest while on the flight. She died a few days later. According to the toxicology report, Fisher had taken cocaine, MDMA, methadone and heroin. 

Fisher had openly spoken about her struggles with drugs and substance abuse before her death. A few days after she passed away, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, also died. 

Blunt explained in his memoir that he attempted to take a “different approach” from Fisher’s friends when trying to convince her to stop using drugs. 

“Charlie, her best friend, confronted her more directly and told her she needed to quit drugs,” he stated. “I took a different approach and did them with her, pretending to myself that I would guide her to redemption one day — just not today. As a result, her — daughter Billie blames me in part for her death, and no longer speaks to me.”

After Fisher’s death, Lourd shared that her mother was struggling with her mental health and that was, in her opinion, her cause of death. “My mom battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life,” she told People in 2017. “She ultimately died of it. She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases.”