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The Final Farewell: Julia Roberts Tearily Grieves Late Half-Sister Nancy Motes At Atlanta Funeral

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Dec. 17 2014, Updated 12:09 p.m. ET

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Julia Roberts looked inconsolably upset at Saturday’s funeral for her late half-sister Nancy Motes at the New Smyrna Cemetery in Atlanta, nearly three months after Moats was found dead at 37 in what authorities dubbed a suicide via overdose, with "both prescription and nonprescription pills" present at the death scene.

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Adding to the sense of tragedy at Saturday’s ceremony was the possibly-unresolved rift between Roberts and Motes, whose tension was well-chronicled in the years leading up to the latter's death.

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Adding to the sense of tragedy at Saturday’s ceremony was the possibly-unresolved rift between Roberts and Motes, whose tension was well-chronicled in the years leading up to the latter's death.

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The Dying Young star admitted in the same chat that it had been difficult “to formulate a sentence about it outside the weepy huddle of my family,” and that “there aren't words to exp