Carrie Fisher was reportedly ‘pressured’ to be thin by Star Wars bosses.
Singer James Blunt, who is known for his classic song You’re Beautiful, was friends with the Princess Leia actress and has spoken out about her drug abuse, which he claims was sparked by “pressure” and led to her untimely death. Blunt and Fisher were so close that he moved into her Los Angeles house back in the noughties when he was recording his first album.
While talking to fans at Hay Literary Festival, Blunt claimed: “I just knew that the day before she died, when she came back to my house and she’d been really mistreating her body and she’d just got the job again of being Princess Leia in the new Star Wars movies.”
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“So she’s really on a high and positive but they had applied a lot of pressure on her to be thin, which is what they do, so she spoke about the difficulties that women have in the industry, that men are allowed to grow old and women are not. She had to really put a lot of pressure on herself and started abusing drugs again.”
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Blunt continued on to allege that the Princess Leia actress destroyed herself by consuming so many: “By the time she got on the plane she had practically killed herself. They said it was a heart failure but she had taken enough drugs to have a great party.”
Fisher sadly died back in 2016 aged just 60-years-old. At the time, an autopsy revealed that she suffered a cardiac arrest while on a plane from London to LA. Cocaine, ecstasy, alcohol and opiates were all found in her system but they could not determine whether the drugs contributed to her death.
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Despite this, her daughter Billie Lourd told People: “My mom battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life. She ultimately died of it.” Fisher had also spoken out about her weight in past interviews discussing her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise.
In an interview with Good Housekeeping, Carrie discussed reprising her role in the 2015 film The Force Awakens and revealed that she had been asked to lose 35lbs. She quipped that bosses “didn’t want to hire all of her,” they just wanted “only about three-quarters”.
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Fisher went on to say that the industry is “an appearance driven thing” and that she worked in a business “where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance”. She added: “That is so messed up. They might as well say get younger, because that’s how easy it is.”
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