James Blunt has opened up about why Carrie Fisher's daughter blames him for her death.
The You're Beautiful singer, 49, was with the Star Wars actress the night before she was found unresponsive during a flight from London to Los Angeles in 2016.
Fisher passed away days later, and a toxicology report later found she had cocaine, heroin, MDMA and methadone in her system.
While the report did not state a definitive cause of death, she had been open about her decades-long struggles with substance abuse.
Blunt, who lived with Fisher at one point, laid bare the reason for the falling out with her only child, Billie Lourd, in his newly released memoir Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story.
Admitting that he had taken a "different approach" to his friend's demons, he wrote: “Charlie, her best friend, confronted her more directly and told her she needed to quit drugs… I took a different approach and did them with her, pretending to myself that I would guide her to redemption one day — just not today.
"As a result, her — daughter Billie blames me in part for her death, and no longer speaks to me.”
Blunt spoke further about his friendship with Fisher during the latest episode of Kathy Burke's podcast Where There's A Will, There's A Wake.
Hailing her as "my closest friend, dearest friend", he said having her in his life had "a huge impact on me as a human" and that she had known all of his "darkest secrets".
"My first album is called Back to Bedlam because of the madhouse that was her house. You just get up and drive away from her place, drive to the studio and back each night," he recalled to Burke.
While he didn't offer an explanation as to why, Blunt also revealed that Fisher had a Christmas tree set up in her home "365 days a year".
