Shortly after news of her death was made public, her dog Gary, who has his own Twitter account, said goodbye: "Saddest tweets to tweet. She returned last year in Disney's reboot of the 'Star Wars' franchise, 'The Force Awakens', appearing as the more matronly General Leia Organa, leader of the Resistance movement fighting the evil First Order.įilming was completed in July on Fisher's next appearance as Leia in 'Star Wars: Episode VIII', which is set to reach theatres in December 2017. She gained sex symbol status in 1983's 'Return of the Jedi' when her Leia character wore a metallic gold bikini while enslaved by the diabolical Jabba the Hutt. He was kind," she wrote of Ford in the memoir, the latest of several books Fisher authored over the years.įisher reprised the role in two 'Star Wars' sequels. "How could you ask such a shining specimen of a man to be satisfied with the likes of me? I was so inexperienced, but I trusted something about him. She was 19 and Ford was 33 at the time of the affair. "It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend."
Ford played the maverick space pilot Han Solo. The book is based on Fisher's diaries from her time working on the first 'Star Wars' movie.įisher said the affair started and ended in 1976 during production on the blockbuster sci-fi adventure in which she first appeared as the intrepid Princess Leia. Her death came a month after the actress and author made headlines by disclosing that she had a three-month love affair with her 'Star Wars' co-star Harrison Ford 40 years ago.įisher revealed the secret to People magazine while promoting her new memoir, 'The Princess Diarist', just before it went on sale. She was met by paramedics and rushed to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She suffered a heart attack during a flight last Friday from London to Los Angeles. "A wonderful talent & light has been extinguished."įisher, the daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, who died in 2010, had been in England shooting the third season of the British sitcom 'Catastrophe'.
William Shatner, best known for his role in the television series 'Star Trek', said he would miss her. "She was loved by the world, and she will be missed profoundly."įisher's friend and former Star Wars' co-star Mark Hamill said in a tweet: "No words. "It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8.55 this morning," Lourd said in a statement issued by Simon Halls. Carrie Fisher, who rose to fame as Princess Leia in the 'Star Wars' films and later endured drug addiction and stormy romances with show business heavyweights, died in Los Angeles yesterday, aged 60, her daughter said through a family spokesperson.