The extra that played Princess Leia has accepted to application cocaine during the filming of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
While abstract boxes and donuts were acceptable the best alarming substances captivated by the actors in the prequel Star Wars trilogy, the aboriginal trilogy's actors were affianced in abundant harder stuff. At atomic one of them was, anyway, with Carrie Fisher afresh acceptance that while she wasn't on camera as Princess Leia, she was amusement cocaine.
"We did cocaine on the set of Empire, in the ice planet," Fisher told Australian newswire AAP. "I didn't alike like coke that much, it was aloof a case of accepting on whatever alternation I bare to booty to get high."
Fisher is currently traveling to assorted locations to accomplish a one-woman comedy alleged Wishful Drinking, based on her book of the aforementioned name. The book follows Fisher's bouts with alcoholism and biologic addiction. As with abounding acknowledged cine stars, the acceptance she begin in Star Wars wasn't abundant to accomplish her appetite to get clean.
After John Belushi, who died of a biologic overdose, warned Fisher that she had a biologic botheration on the set of Blues Brothers, she began to apprehend that she was walking bottomward a alarming path. Fisher says she accomplished she was "losing her best in the matter."
But Fisher doesn't accusation her addiction on Star Wars or acceptable a accepted actress. "It's consistently been my responsibility," she added. "If it was Hollywood [to blame], again we'd all be blockhead addicts." Thankfully, Fisher was able to get clean, and we still accept Princess Leia amidst the healthy. Not to accomplish ablaze of biologic use, but I anticipate you accept to be appealing aerial to abrasion a metal bikini anyway.
Source escapistmagazine.com