Carrie Fisher's ashes carried in Prozac-shaped urn as she is laid to rest next to mother Debbie Reynolds

Emma Powell7 January 2017
The Weekender

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Carrie Fisher's ashes were carried in a Prozac-shaped urn as she was laid to rest alongside her mother Debbie Reynolds at a private service.

The Star Wars actress, 60, had spoken openly about her own mental health issues and use of anti-depressant drugs.

She was laid to rest after A-listers turned out in force for a joint Hollywood memorial service for Fisher and her mother Reynolds, who starred in the classic ‘Singin’ in the rain' and died aged 84 a day after her daughter last month.

Carrie's brother Todd Fisher said the giant pill in the shape of an atni-depressant would be a fitting urn because it was one of her "favourite possessions".

"She loved it, and it was in her house, and Billie [Carrie Fisher's daughter] and I felt it was where she would want to be," he said.

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Other than Carrie Fisher's cremation and unique urn, nearly no details were revealed about the ceremony, or about what form the two women's graves took.

Together: Debbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher
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They'll have plenty of celebrity company at the sprawling, hillside cemetery just across the Los Angeles River from Warner Bros. and Disney studios, including Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Dick Van Patten, Liberace and Florence Henderson.

The funeral came a day after the two actresses were eulogized by family and close friends at a private memorial service at their neighboring homes in Coldwater Canyon, about 10 miles west.

Todd Fisher said on Friday he'll remember his mother and sister most for their resilience, and said both reminded him of Reynold's role in 1964's "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."

"They were both Molly Browns of sorts," Todd Fisher said. "It's about a very strong woman. They were very, very strong women."

He added, "we have so much of them that was left behind, all my sister's words, and all the movies and all the things they created, and that's what we need to remember."

Now, the family plans a public memorial.

"We'll have a bigger service down the road for the public and all the family friends, but this was a private family service," Todd Fisher said. "It was fitting and it was beautiful."

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