Carrie Fisher, of Star Wars fame — her most famous role was that of Princess Leia — passed away on Monday after suffering a massive heart attack.
Born to actor Debbie Reynolds and musician Eddie Fisher, Carrie Fisher was a part of Hollywood royalty.
Fisher long battled drug addiction and mental illness. She said she smoked pot at age 13, used LSD by 21 and was first diagnosed as bipolar at age 24.
In 1987, her thinly veiled autobiography Postcards From the Edge became a best seller. It became a 1990 film starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep.
More books followed — Delusions of Grandma, Surrender the Pink, The Best Awful, Shockaholic and this year’s autobiography, The Princess Diarist, in which she revealed that she and co-star Harrison Ford had an affair on the set of Star Wars.
“I’m a product of Hollywood inbreeding. When two celebrities mate, something like me is the result,” she has said.
This cover image released by Blue Rider Press shows The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher.
Both her mother Debbie Reynolds and co-star Harrison Ford have outlived Fisher.