Julia Roberts Opens Up About Half-Sister's Death

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Months after the death of her half-sister Nancy Motes, Julia Roberts opens up to WSJ magazine about her grieving process.

"It's hour by hour some days, but you just keep looking ahead," the 46-year-old star said. "You don't want anything bad to happen to anyone, but there are so many tragic, painful, inexplicable things in the world. 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."


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Roberts' sibling passed away in February at age 37 of an apparent drug overdose. She was the youngest sister of both the actress and her actor brother Eric Roberts, 57.