Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImageJulia Louis-Dreyfusis speaking out about her youngest sister’s death for the first time, four months after she was laid to rest.“It was out of the blue,” Julia, 57, said in aNew Yorkerprofile, published Wednesday.Emma Louis-Dreyfus, a social worker, was on a camping trip in the Sierra Nevadas when she suffered a seizure and died Aug. 13. She was 44.The news was delivered to Julia as she returned to work on theVeepset early that same month — months after after sheunderwent surgery in Februaryand spent the summersoaking up the sun in Hawaiiwith herhusband Brad Hall.After Emma’s death, it was discovered that she had both cocaine and alcohol in her body.“Given the fact that that heinous s— came out, I would simply say I’ve kept this under wraps out of reverence for my dearest Emma,” Louis-Dreyfus told the outlet, dispelling any reports that the siblings were estranged.“It’s been a very bad period of time,” she said.The past two years have been a very trying time for the Emmy Award-winning actress.In September 2016, she broke down in tears on stage as she accepted her seventh Emmy Award and revealed that her father, billionaire business mogul William Louis-Dreyfus,died two days earlier. “Lastly, I’d like to dedicate this to my father, William Louis-Dreyfus, who passed away on Friday. I’m so glad that he likedVeepbecause his opinion was the one that really mattered,” she said.One year later, Julia announced in September 2017 that she wasdiagnosed with breast cancer, just after she won her sixth consecutive outstanding lead actress Emmy for her role as Selina Meyer onVeep(which set the record for most wins for a performance in the same role for the same series).Thankfully now, after months of treatment, Julia is in remission.Whileaccepting the Mark Twin Prize for American HumoratJohn F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.in October, shereflected on the experienceand how laughteraided in her recovery.“The old cliché about laughter being the best medicine turns out to be true — which is good, because that’s what the current administration is trying to replace Obamacare with,” she said.Julia, who shares two sons with Hall — Charlie, 21, and Henry, 26 — said the closest people in her life kept the laughs comingwhile she was in the hospital.“When I was getting my hideous chemotherapy, I’d cram a bunch of family and friends into this tiny treatment room with me, and we really did have some great laughs,” she said. “Of course, I was heavily medicated and slipping in and out of consciousness, so I was probably a pretty easy audience, but my point is that laughter is a basic human need, along with love and food and an HBO subscription.”
Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage
Julia Louis-Dreyfusis speaking out about her youngest sister’s death for the first time, four months after she was laid to rest.“It was out of the blue,” Julia, 57, said in aNew Yorkerprofile, published Wednesday.Emma Louis-Dreyfus, a social worker, was on a camping trip in the Sierra Nevadas when she suffered a seizure and died Aug. 13. She was 44.The news was delivered to Julia as she returned to work on theVeepset early that same month — months after after sheunderwent surgery in Februaryand spent the summersoaking up the sun in Hawaiiwith herhusband Brad Hall.After Emma’s death, it was discovered that she had both cocaine and alcohol in her body.“Given the fact that that heinous s— came out, I would simply say I’ve kept this under wraps out of reverence for my dearest Emma,” Louis-Dreyfus told the outlet, dispelling any reports that the siblings were estranged.“It’s been a very bad period of time,” she said.The past two years have been a very trying time for the Emmy Award-winning actress.In September 2016, she broke down in tears on stage as she accepted her seventh Emmy Award and revealed that her father, billionaire business mogul William Louis-Dreyfus,died two days earlier. “Lastly, I’d like to dedicate this to my father, William Louis-Dreyfus, who passed away on Friday. I’m so glad that he likedVeepbecause his opinion was the one that really mattered,” she said.One year later, Julia announced in September 2017 that she wasdiagnosed with breast cancer, just after she won her sixth consecutive outstanding lead actress Emmy for her role as Selina Meyer onVeep(which set the record for most wins for a performance in the same role for the same series).Thankfully now, after months of treatment, Julia is in remission.Whileaccepting the Mark Twin Prize for American HumoratJohn F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.in October, shereflected on the experienceand how laughteraided in her recovery.“The old cliché about laughter being the best medicine turns out to be true — which is good, because that’s what the current administration is trying to replace Obamacare with,” she said.Julia, who shares two sons with Hall — Charlie, 21, and Henry, 26 — said the closest people in her life kept the laughs comingwhile she was in the hospital.“When I was getting my hideous chemotherapy, I’d cram a bunch of family and friends into this tiny treatment room with me, and we really did have some great laughs,” she said. “Of course, I was heavily medicated and slipping in and out of consciousness, so I was probably a pretty easy audience, but my point is that laughter is a basic human need, along with love and food and an HBO subscription.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfusis speaking out about her youngest sister’s death for the first time, four months after she was laid to rest.
“It was out of the blue,” Julia, 57, said in aNew Yorkerprofile, published Wednesday.
Emma Louis-Dreyfus, a social worker, was on a camping trip in the Sierra Nevadas when she suffered a seizure and died Aug. 13. She was 44.
The news was delivered to Julia as she returned to work on theVeepset early that same month — months after after sheunderwent surgery in Februaryand spent the summersoaking up the sun in Hawaiiwith herhusband Brad Hall.
After Emma’s death, it was discovered that she had both cocaine and alcohol in her body.
“Given the fact that that heinous s— came out, I would simply say I’ve kept this under wraps out of reverence for my dearest Emma,” Louis-Dreyfus told the outlet, dispelling any reports that the siblings were estranged.
“It’s been a very bad period of time,” she said.
The past two years have been a very trying time for the Emmy Award-winning actress.
In September 2016, she broke down in tears on stage as she accepted her seventh Emmy Award and revealed that her father, billionaire business mogul William Louis-Dreyfus,died two days earlier. “Lastly, I’d like to dedicate this to my father, William Louis-Dreyfus, who passed away on Friday. I’m so glad that he likedVeepbecause his opinion was the one that really mattered,” she said.
One year later, Julia announced in September 2017 that she wasdiagnosed with breast cancer, just after she won her sixth consecutive outstanding lead actress Emmy for her role as Selina Meyer onVeep(which set the record for most wins for a performance in the same role for the same series).
Thankfully now, after months of treatment, Julia is in remission.
Whileaccepting the Mark Twin Prize for American HumoratJohn F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.in October, shereflected on the experienceand how laughteraided in her recovery.
“The old cliché about laughter being the best medicine turns out to be true — which is good, because that’s what the current administration is trying to replace Obamacare with,” she said.
Julia, who shares two sons with Hall — Charlie, 21, and Henry, 26 — said the closest people in her life kept the laughs comingwhile she was in the hospital.
“When I was getting my hideous chemotherapy, I’d cram a bunch of family and friends into this tiny treatment room with me, and we really did have some great laughs,” she said. “Of course, I was heavily medicated and slipping in and out of consciousness, so I was probably a pretty easy audience, but my point is that laughter is a basic human need, along with love and food and an HBO subscription.”
source: people.com
