reporting. joining us from people magazine is cara wagner, who wrote the cover story on carrie fisher s death and has been following the latest on debbie reynolds passing as well. just about these last 24 hours. it s been so heartbreaking for so many americans right now. what more do we know about these final hours debbie reynolds was by her daughter s side in the waning hours before she lost her own life as well? right. it is so sad is the baseline, i think, for everyone that knew them both and for all of us that loved them both. i think what we know is that debbie was heartbroken. she s been suffering from preexisting medical conditions for several years. it wasn t a total surprise that she might suffer from a mild stroke, but it s devastating that it happened a day after her daughter s death. what so many americans should be focusing on today is the unique relationship that these two women shared as much as
anything. they were groundbreaking in different ways. debbie reynolds and carrie fish fisher, where debbie reynolds came of age in goln era of hollywood where everything was perfect, and carrie fisher made the imperfections in her life cool in a way, or something at with which most americans were comfortable, would you agree? yes. and carrie was very vocal about how she grew up around her mother being this perfect, famous hollywood celebrity and kind of the pressure growing up around mgm and being on the lot all the time. not necessarily living in her mother s shadow, but the pressure that that exacted on her. when she came to be more honest about it, especially with her struggles with addiction, it made her so much more relationable and eventually brought she and her mother closer together. they had ten years where they were es stranged and carrie wasn t talking to debbie and dpe