Betty Lou Bredemus: Julia Roberts’ mother dies from lung cancer aged 80

According to multiple reports Julia Robert’s mother, Betty Lou Bredemus, has died from lung cancer at the age of 80.

Betty Lou Bredemus died in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 19.

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She was the mother of four children – Eric Roberts, 58; Julia, 47; Lisa Gillan, 49, and Nancy Motes, who died last year at age 37. She was also the grandmother of actress Emma Roberts, Eric’s daughter, along with Julia’s children – twins Phinnaeus and Hazel, both 10, and Henry, 7.

Betty Lou Bredemus had once run an acting school in Smyrna, Georgia.

Julia Roberts was in Los Angles filming The Secret in Their Eyes when he mother passed.