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By Laura Italiano and Kate Sheehy
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\u201cStar Wars\u201d actress Carrie Fisher<\/a>, the daughter of Hollywood royalty who soared to fame as a wise-cracking intergalactic princess, died Tuesday, four days after suffering a massive heart attack.<\/p>\n

Fisher, 60, never regained consciousness after going into cardiac arrest aboard a plane<\/a> around noon Friday while traveling from London to Los Angeles to promote her latest memoir.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother, Carrie Fisher, passed away at 8:55 this morning,\u201d Fisher\u2019s family spokesman, Simon Halls, said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Fisher\u2019s actress mother, Debbie Reynolds<\/a>, 84, called her daughter \u201cbeloved and amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful for your thoughts and prayers that are now guiding her to her next stop. Love, Carrie\u2019s Mother,\u201d Reynolds wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Fisher was most famous for her elaborately coiffed role as Princess Leia Organa in the sci-fi movie series.<\/p>\n

She landed the coveted job at just 19, beating out actresses Jodie Foster<\/a> and Amy Irving.<\/p>\n

But while the once-in-a-lifetime gig made her the fantasy of teenage boys and sci-fi geeks everywhere, it also proved to be a burden, Fisher frequently lamented.<\/p>\n

She would go on to write critically acclaimed books, do star turns in hit movies and marry a music legend, but \u201cPrincess Leia will be on my tombstone,\u2019\u2019 Fisher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cForty-three years ago, George Lucas<\/a> ruined my life. And I mean that in the nicest way possible,\u201d Fisher wrote in her 2008 book, \u201cWishful Drinking,\u201d referring to the series\u2019 creator.<\/p>\n

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Fisher ribbed Lucas for turning her into a sex symbol by demanding that she wear Leia\u2019s iconic gold metal bikini in \u201cReturn of the Jedi.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he showed me the outfit, I thought he was kidding,\u201d she told NPR last month<\/a> while promoting her new autobiography, \u201cThe Princess Diarist,\u2019\u2019 her eighth book.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it made me very nervous. I had to sit very straight because I couldn\u2019t have lines on my sides, like little creases. No creases were allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, after years of rumors, Fisher finally admitted to sleeping with married co-star<\/a>Harrison Ford<\/a> during the filming of the 1977 \u201dStar Wars\u2019\u2019 blockbuster.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod, he was just so handsome,\u201d Fisher dished in \u201cThe Princess Diarist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. No, more than that. He looked like he could lead the charge into battle, take the hill, win the duel, be leader of the gluten-free world, all without breaking a sweat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, Fisher had reprised her role for the newest \u201cStar Wars<\/a>\u201d sequel trilogy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Force Awakens\u2019\u2019 came out last year, and she also finished filming for the second flick, \u201cEpisode VIII,\u201d due out next December.<\/p>\n

But behind the cameras, over the years, she struggled with alcoholism, pill addiction and bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

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Carrie Fisher reportedly had drug relapse before death<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Fisher memorably told Oprah Winfrey<\/a> in a 2011 interview that she was getting regular jolts of electroconvulsive therapy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, her romances and friendships through it all amounted to a celebrity Who\u2019s Who.<\/p>\n

She married Paul Simon<\/a> when she was 26, later joking that he was a short Jewish singer like her father, crooner Eddie Fisher.<\/p>\n

Both suffered from depression, and a year and one miscarriage later, they divorced, then continued to date on and off for the next decade. In between, Fisher became engaged \u2014 then un-engaged \u2014 to comedian Dan Aykroyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere there should be a flower and a gardener, we were two flowers. In the bright sun. Wilting,\u201d Carrie once said of her relationship with Simon.<\/p>\n

Simon would write several song lyrics with Fisher in mind, including these from his 1986 tune \u201cGraceland\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cShe comes back to tell me she\u2019s gone,
\n\u201cAs if I didn\u2019t know that,
\n\u201cAs if I didn\u2019t know my own bed,
\n\u201cAs if I\u2019d never noticed,
\n\u201cThe way she brushed her hair from her forehead.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fisher once said, \u201cI\u2019m not as cooperative as you might want a woman to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery man, I think, or at least the ones I end up finding, there\u2019s no such thing as a consort. All men are kings. That was my little discovery . . . I really thought men\u2019s fantasy is to have an intellectual geisha. So what I did was I learned to cook, and I took a massage course. But that\u2019s not all of it. You have to also agree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fisher bore her only child, Billie, with her second husband, Hollywood agent Bryan Lourd \u2014 who left her after three years of marriage for another man.<\/p>\n

In addition to the \u201cStar Wars\u2019\u2019 franchise, Fisher was known for her roles in everything from flicks such as \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally\u2019\u2019 to satirical appearances in TV\u2019s \u201cSex and the City<\/a>\u2019\u2019 and \u201cThe Big Bang Theory<\/a>.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Fisher also was a prolific writer, plumbing her struggles as a celebrity daughter, sci-fi icon and against-the-odds survivor in sassy, salacious memoirs and semi-autobiographical novels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt isn\u2019t all sweetness and light sabers,\u201d she quipped of her life in her 2011 memoir, \u201cShockaholic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her 1987 roman \u00e0 clef, \u201cPostcards From the Edge,\u201d was a critical success, later adapted into a movie by the same name and starring Meryl Streep<\/a>, Shirley MacLaine<\/a> and Dennis Quaid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this excerpt, the book\u2019s main character, Suzanne, talks about a recent rehab stay:<\/p>\n

\u201cMom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, \u2018Instant gratification takes too long.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But long before Fisher began writing \u2014 or even blasting away at stormtroopers \u2014 she was already in the public eye as the daughter of 1950s superstars.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to share her, and I didn\u2019t like that,\u201d Fisher told NPR last month of her movie-star mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we went out, people sort of walked over me to get to her, and no, I didn\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her father was also a star crooner. Her parents divorced in 1959, when Fisher was just 18 months old.<\/p>\n

Her father had hopped into bed with a newly widowed Elizabeth Taylor<\/a>, and decided to stay there, creating a major Hollywood scandal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result,\u201d Fisher said.<\/p>\n

She added that seeing Hollywood so up close, including through her parents\u2019 eyes, was unnerving.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir bright, white-hot star of celebrity was slowly dimming and fading and cooling. It scared me,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cI saw what it did to them. It hurt them.\u201d<\/p>\n

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.<\/p>\n

\u00a0–\u00a0Carrie Fisher<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As she grew up, her father never visited, and her mom took to drink, Fisher complained.<\/p>\n

It was not a conventional family, even by celebrity standards, Fisher said. The year she turned 15, her mom gave her and her grandmother matching vibrators for Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs unusual as a gift like this sounds, you have to admit that they are ideal stocking stuffers,\u201d Fisher quipped in her tome \u201cWishful Drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I have to admit, I enjoyed mine, but my grandmother refused to use hers,\u201d Fisher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was concerned that it would short-circuit her pacemaker. She said that she had gone this long without an orgasm; she might as well go the whole way. (And that pacemaker, by the way, was later recalled).\u201d<\/p>\n

Fisher started smoking pot at age 13. Over the years, she added booze and pills, all to numb her bipolar disorder, she said.<\/p>\n

She snorted coke while shooting the first \u201cStar Wars\u201d sequel, \u201cThe Empire Strikes Back,\u201d she told the Daily Mail in a 2010 interview promoting the stand-up comedy version of \u201cWishful Drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even like coke that much,\u201d she told the Mail. \u201cIt was just a case of getting on whatever train I needed to take to get high.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her addiction was so out-of-hand that comedian John Belushi<\/a> \u2014 who would OD on cocaine and speed at 33 in 1982 \u2014 once told her to slow down.<\/p>\n

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Carrie Fisher’s quick wit remembered by mourning stars<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A source told Radar Online<\/a> that the still-struggling Fisher suffered a drug relapse about a month before her fatal heart attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw her myself high as a kite once, not that long ago,\u2019\u2019 the source said. \u201cIronically, she said to me, \u2019You\u2019re too old to get high anymore, dear.\u2019 I replied, \u2018You, too, dear.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

A rep for the actress did not respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Fisher was once asked if she was afraid to die.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. I fear dying,\u2019\u2019 she replied. \u201cAnything with pain associated with it, I don\u2019t like. I\u2019ve been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn\u2019t look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I\u2019d want someone like me around. And I will be there!\u201d<\/p>\n

It was clear where she got her wit from.<\/p>\n

After Fisher revealed that she and Ford had been an item, her mother, Reynolds, tweeted<\/a>, \u201cWhy all the fuss about Carrie\u2019s admitting she had an affair with Harrison Ford? I have to admit I slept with her father!\u201d<\/p>\n

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