“She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly.
Our entire family thanks you for your thoughts and prayers.”
As cutting as she could be about the industry, Fisher often saved her harshest words for herself.
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That vulnerability became, ironically, a kind of armor.
“When two celebrities mate, something like me is the result.”
Around age 12, Fisher started sharing the stage with her mother in a nightclub act.
She started but never finished high school, choosing instead to join the Broadway musicalIrene.
She went on to study at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama but never graduated.
Two words interrupted her life and then changed it forever:Star Wars.
De Palma’s was an adaptation of Stephen King’s first novel.
“I thought that last role would be a funny casting coup if I got it: CarrieasCarrie inCarrie.
For girls and boys who becameStar Warsfans, she was an icon.
Fisher shared some advice with her then-23-year-old costar during aconversationforInterviewmagazine last year.
“Don’t be a slave like I was.
You keep fighting against that slave outfit.”
(In her 2011 memoir,Shockaholic, she discussed her experiences with electroconvulsive therapy.)
AfterStar Wars, her acting career stalled.
Princess Leia overshadowed all.
But she became a full-fledged star again on the page.
(Fisher is the one-half, since only her father was Jewish.)
The relationship didn’t last beyond that movie.
Her press tour alongside her charmingly stoic little dog Gary had fans howling with herblunt takeon the princess-turned-general.
“I am so self-conscious because I have a big mouth.
Everything else is little.
But my mouth is huge,” she told EW.
“So I have to be very careful.
Don’t say that!'
I was like, ‘You mean I can’t say that?
But fans adored it.
Even the bracing honesty.
In a realm full of fantasy, Fisher cut through with unabashed truth.
That’s why fans loved her.
Hopefully, she knew.
