![]() ![]() ![]() “Maybe I shouldn’t have given the guy who pumped my stomach my phone number, but who cares? My life is over anyway,” Fisher deadpans in the opening pages of her roman à clef, Postcards from the Edge, a razor-sharp book about addiction and mental illness that is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. Not only did she want to write a book, she already knew what the first line would be, inspired by her recent ordeal in the emergency room. The invitation couldn’t have been better timed. Months before, she had accidentally overdosed on tranquillisers and had been bundled, unconscious, into the front passenger seat of a car by three friends and rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where her stomach was pumped, saving her life. ![]() Fisher, whose role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy had recently catapulted her to A-list fame, had been losing control of her drug use. She was halfway through treatment at New Beginnings rehab centre in Los Angeles. At the time, the 28-year-old actor wasn’t at home, nor was she on a set. In the summer of 1985, Carrie Fisher received a letter asking if she’d like to write a book. ![]()
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