Billie Lourdis perfecting a fun family Thanksgiving “tradition” she inherited from her late grandmotherDebbie Reynolds.TheAmerican Horror Storyactress, 26, revealed her unconventional family secret while onThe Late Late Show with James Cordenon Tuesday night.“Cooking is a dangerous thing for me, I’m pretty inept in the kitchen,” Lourd said after hostJames Cordenasked her what she planned to make for the holiday dinner.“It’s kind of scary, it’s a dangerous time,” she joked. “So, what I do is lie, I bring something from a great restaurant and I put it in a sad little box and pretend like I did it.”Lourd explained the lie had “become a family tradition vibe” and added, “my grandma used to do it.”Kevin Mazur/WireImage“She did it really poorly. One year, she decided she was going to make everything and shesaidshe was going to make everything,” she recalled. “[She] put [the food] out. My dad and I were serving the food on the plates and we were like, ‘This isn’t looking great.'”Lourd continued: “And we checked under [the table] and it’s El Pollo Loco. At least put it in a different dish!”While the actress wasn’t all that impressed with her grandmother’s lying skills — shewasan Academy Award-nominated actress after all —Lourd said she was continuing the icon’s legacy.“So, I do better and put it in a sad Tupperware so it looks like I did it,” she said.Lourd lost both her grandmother and mother, Carrie Fisher, just one day apart from each other in December 2016.The actress said working on Ryan Murphy’sAmerican Horror Story“saved” her life after the deaths.RELATED VIDEO: Billie Lourd Opens Up About Life After Loss of Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds: ‘Now I Get to Be Just Billie’“I cannot thank Ryan enough,” she toldEntertainment Tonightlast week. “Honestly, it kind of saved my life.When Ryan offered meCult, it was just a few months after my mom passed, and it honestly helped me process all of my emotions through these characters,” she explained.“Being able to cry for [my character] Winter helped me cry for myself,” Lourd said. “And it’s been really healing and cathartic in an amazing way. It is heavy. We spend, like, 14 hours a day crying, and sometimes I go home and I will cry in my car for no reason because it’s like peeing.”She added: “Once you break the seal, you can’t stop.”
Billie Lourdis perfecting a fun family Thanksgiving “tradition” she inherited from her late grandmotherDebbie Reynolds.
TheAmerican Horror Storyactress, 26, revealed her unconventional family secret while onThe Late Late Show with James Cordenon Tuesday night.
“Cooking is a dangerous thing for me, I’m pretty inept in the kitchen,” Lourd said after hostJames Cordenasked her what she planned to make for the holiday dinner.
“It’s kind of scary, it’s a dangerous time,” she joked. “So, what I do is lie, I bring something from a great restaurant and I put it in a sad little box and pretend like I did it.”
Lourd explained the lie had “become a family tradition vibe” and added, “my grandma used to do it.”
Kevin Mazur/WireImage
“She did it really poorly. One year, she decided she was going to make everything and shesaidshe was going to make everything,” she recalled. “[She] put [the food] out. My dad and I were serving the food on the plates and we were like, ‘This isn’t looking great.'”
Lourd continued: “And we checked under [the table] and it’s El Pollo Loco. At least put it in a different dish!”
While the actress wasn’t all that impressed with her grandmother’s lying skills — shewasan Academy Award-nominated actress after all —Lourd said she was continuing the icon’s legacy.
“So, I do better and put it in a sad Tupperware so it looks like I did it,” she said.
Lourd lost both her grandmother and mother, Carrie Fisher, just one day apart from each other in December 2016.
The actress said working on Ryan Murphy’sAmerican Horror Story“saved” her life after the deaths.
RELATED VIDEO: Billie Lourd Opens Up About Life After Loss of Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds: ‘Now I Get to Be Just Billie’
“I cannot thank Ryan enough,” she toldEntertainment Tonightlast week. “Honestly, it kind of saved my life.When Ryan offered meCult, it was just a few months after my mom passed, and it honestly helped me process all of my emotions through these characters,” she explained.
“Being able to cry for [my character] Winter helped me cry for myself,” Lourd said. “And it’s been really healing and cathartic in an amazing way. It is heavy. We spend, like, 14 hours a day crying, and sometimes I go home and I will cry in my car for no reason because it’s like peeing.”
She added: “Once you break the seal, you can’t stop.”
source: people.com
