WARNING: This post deals with suicide and depression, and may be upsetting for some readers.
Oscar Award winning actress Julia Roberts, 46, has said that she is still struggling with her half-sister’s sudden death, which happened in February this year.
Roberts’ half-sister, Nancy Motes, died of an apparent drug overdose at the young age of 37 – and Roberts has just opened up about the profound effect that loss had on her. She told WSJ Magazine that she’s still trying to understand the sudden death.
“It’s just heartbreak,” she said.
Roberts talks about the grief and suffering that her and her family went through in the immediate days following her sisters death.
“It’s only been 20 days. There aren’t words to explain what any of us have been through in these last 20 days. It’s hour by hour some days, but you just keep looking ahead,” she told the magazine.
Roberts is focusing on the importance of family to help her get through such a painful tragedy.
“You don’t want anything bad to happen to anyone, but there are so many tragic, painful, inexplicable things in the world,” Roberts said.
“But [as with] any situation of challenge and despair, we must find a way, as a family … It’s so hard to formulate a sentence about it outside the weepy huddle of my family.”
Roberts has also spoken of how she is using meditation to cope with the healing process.
“Meditation or chanting or any of those things can be so joyous and also very quieting.”
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