Julia Roberts Opens Up About Half-Sister's Suicide
Julia Roberts has opened up about her half-sister's suicide.
In a new published interview, Roberts spoke of her and her family's heartbreak over Nancy Motes' suicide for the very first time.
"It's hour by hour some days, but you just keep looking ahead," Roberts told Wall Street Journal Magazine on April 21, according to Us Weekly. "You don't want anything bad to happen to anyone, but there are so many tragic, painful, inexplicable things in the world."
On Feb. 10, 2014, Motes' family released a statement to the New York Daily News, confirming Motes had been found dead in a bathtub at the Los Angeles home where she had been pet-sitting. At the time, it was reported that authorities had discovered prescription and non-prescription drugs at the scene.
One month before her death, Motes had gone on an elaborate Twitter rant against her famous half-sister. In her rant, Motes called Roberts a "b***h" and claimed she wasn't that great of an actress. She also said that her family had "abandoned" her.
Still, Roberts and the family were admittedly "shocked and devastated" over the loss and, according to Roberts, continue to struggle with the news of Motes' passing.
"But [as with] any situation of challenge and despair, we must find a way, as a family," Roberts said. "It's so hard to formulate a sentence about it outside the weepy huddle of my family."