Julia Roberts expressed only grief and sadness in finally opening up about the suicide of half-sister Nancy Motes two months ago, not addressing any of the bad blood the two reportedly had leading up to the tragic death, or details about her loved one’s despair.

“It's just heartbreak,” the 46-year-old Oscar-winner told WSJ magazine of Motes. “It's hour-by-hour some days, but you just keep looking ahead.

The Dying Young 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 any situation of challenge and despair, we must find a way, as a family.

The Notting Hill star, who missed a series of award season events in mourning her late relative, conceded that it’s been difficult for her “to formulate a sentence about it outside the weepy huddle of my family.”