Toni Braxton is "trying to live with a broken heart" following the death of her sister Traci

She told People: "She's always with me. I miss her every day. I can't even explain to you how I miss her. [You see us] dealing with grief and loss - and how I like to say, it's difficult trying to live with a broken heart."

But the 'Un-Break My Heart' songstress - who appears on the WE tv series alongside Trin, Tamar, Towanda, and Evelyn - is sure that her late sibling is still by her side and can feel her "giving her courage" to continue doing what she loves.

She said: "I miss her, but I know she's with me. I know she's holding my hand and talking to me and giving me the courage to get up here and have a good time and entertain you guys, 'cause this is what I love doing as a performer."

Just months after the loss, Tamar revealed that all four sisters had put her ashes into hummingbird-shaped lockets in memory of their sister.

She told 'Dish Nation': "We, all the sisters, have a hummingbird locket, and it's a locket because her ashes are actually in i. We all have one and the reason being is because she wanted to go everywhere we went.

"If I don't have it on, it's in my purse, it's in my bag. It's close to me. She wanted to be a hummingbird and she looked at us as hummingbirds. So, here's to my forever angel hummingbird."