Billie Lourd recently honored her late mother, Carrie Fisher, with a heartfelt tribute on the ninth anniversary of Fisher’s passing. The emotional post was shared alongside a nostalgic photo featuring the “Star Wars” icon, who passed away on December 27, 2016, Billie herself, and her father, Bryan Lourd.

Reflecting on cherished memories, the “American Horror Story” actress recalled a moment of pure joy with her three-year-old daughter, Jackson. She expressed how deeply intertwined her mother’s presence is with the happiness she now experiences. “This joy only exists because she existed,” Billie, now 33, poignantly noted, emphasizing that while her mother may not be physically present, her essence is very much alive in these joyful moments.

Billie further elaborated on how grief manifests in various forms. Currently, it is embodied in the happiness she derives from watching her children interact with their grandfather, Bryan. The post also included a touching photo of Bryan with Billie’s children, Jackson and Kingston, who is five. She shared, “My grief takes on many shapes – today, right now in this moment, that shape is this joy I get to experience watching my kids with my dad.”

“This joy only exists because she existed,” Billie, 33, wrote. The actress continued, noting that even though her mom “is not physically part of this joy, she is part of the reason for it” and that Fisher “lives on through this joy.”

“My grief takes on many shapes – today, right now in this moment, that shape is this joy I get to experience watching my kids with my dad,” Lourd — who included a photo of Jackson and son Kingston, 5, with Bryan in the post — shared.

“It could and will change shapes multiple times throughout this day because grief is never just one thing but right now I am relishing in this bittersweet grieful joy.”

“As my mom wisely said, ‘Nothing is ever really over. Just over there,’” the “Last Showgirl” actress wrote.

“My mombys life isnt really over. Just over there – in my kids and in this joy I’m able to experience because of her. Thank you momby. I will never stop missing you.”

Billie concluded the post by noting that the two photos — one with Bryan, Billie, and Fisher, and one with Bryan with Billie’s two children — “were taken in the same room 25 years apart ❤️”

Fisher — the daughter of screen icons Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher — died in Los Angeles in 2016 after going into cardiac arrest and falling into a days-long coma. She was 60.

Reynolds shockingly passed away one day after Fisher’s death from a stroke on Dec. 28, 2016, at the age of 84.

An autopsy later revealed that Fisher had cocaine, traces of heroin, MDMA, and additional opiates in her system when she passed away — and in a 2017 interview with People, Billie candidly shared that her mother “battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life.”

“She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases,” Lourd explained, adding that her mother “ultimately died of it.”

The “Scream Queens” star went on to welcome son Kingston with Austen Rydell in 2020, whom she married in March 2022. The couple welcomed daughter Jackson in December 2022.

Billie previously memorialized her mother on the seventh anniversary of her death in 2023, sharing that she cried “tears of joy” as she held Jackson, who was 1 year old at the time.

“I felt my mombys [sic] presence like the warmth of the sun on your skin on a hot summer day,” she wrote.