Carrie Fisher slept with Harrison Ford during 'Star Wars' and told us years ago
Carrie Fisher, a.k.a. Princess Leia, has rarely been shy about discussing her tumultuous private life. That continues with the upcoming publication of The Princess Diarist, Fisher's own journal entries from the Star Wars years that made her famous.
In an extract to be published in the next People magazine, Fisher discusses the times she slept with co-star Harrison Ford, beginning a three-month affair on the set of the original Star Wars in 1976. Ford was 34 and married; Fisher was 19.
"It was Han and Leia during the week and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend," Fisher told People. Her journal includes this nugget: "I looked over at Harrison. A hero's face -- a few strands of hair fell over his noble, slightly furrowed brow ... How could you ask such a shining specimen of a man to be satisfied with the likes of me?"
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Cue breathless excitement from Star Wars fandom. Only one problem: Contrary to People's claim, Fisher is not really revealing this information for the first time.
In the above video, for example, Fisher agrees to a surprise interview with British journalist and fan Justin Collins in 2008. She describes how she went on to the set "determined to have an affair."
Hesitantly, starting at 5:20, she describes an incident where Ford hid inside her closet, "naked but for a tie."
In other interviews, as I discovered for my book How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, Fisher has spoken about the fact that she and Ford would smoke pot during the filming of the movie -- but that Ford's weed was too strong for her tastes. That is responsible for her forgetting many of the details, she has said.
She has, however, repeatedly described the delights of kissing Ford with this line: "Special effects gave him a very good mouth."
Fisher appeared on Twitter Tuesday after a long post-election break, with a characteristically curious tweet:
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She also posted this, which may be an attempt to refute the closet story she herself told:
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Ford and Fisher appeared together as Han and Leia for the final time in 2015's The Force Awakens.
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Chris is a veteran tech, entertainment and culture journalist, author of 'How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,' and co-host of the Doctor Who podcast 'Pull to Open.' Hailing from the U.K., Chris got his start as a sub editor on national newspapers. He moved to the U.S. in 1996, and became senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, and West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and Fast Company. Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a long-time volunteer at 826 Valencia, the nationwide after-school program co-founded by author Dave Eggers. His book on the history of Star Wars is an international bestseller and has been translated into 11 languages.
