It’s always unfortunate when great stars pass on but Carrie Fisher was especially sad. She re entered our lives when she reprised her role of princess Leia albeit a more grown up general Organa. Her terrific portrayal just signaled that she didn’t lose a beat over all these years. She unfortunately had heart failure aboard a plane at the very end of 2016. She spent 4 days in critical care before finally passing away. Even more tragically, her mother with whom she had a very close relationship, Debbie Reynolds, was hospitalized a day after Carrie’s death was announced. She too died, a day later due to a massive stroke.
As sad as it is, that just demonstrates how close these two really were. Debbie always worried about Carrie. Carrie Fisher was diagnosed with bipolar syndrome where she would experience manic highs and crippling lows.
“Manic depressive is a disease that was not diagnosed then,” Reynolds shares. “So nobody kind of knew what was going on with Carrie.”
“I went too fast,” Fisher explains, “I was too much. I couldn’t handle it.”
They shared more to each other than anyone else. Carrie also worried about Debbie’s vivacious nature. “My mother, she’ll forget she’s not 35,” Fisher says. “Age is horrible for all of us, but she falls from a greater height.”
But, as deeply as we feel their loss, there are those that feel it so much more close to home. Debbie’s metaphorical daughter and Carrie’s half-sister, Joely fisher, shares his thoughts of the two stars.
“You all lost Princess Leia and Carrie Fisher; I lost my hero, my mentor, my mirror,” Fisher wrote in a piece for the Hollywood Reporter. “My brother Todd has lost his sister and his mother, whom he has said will lay to rest together. There is no universe where these ladies are not due their appropriate pedestals, and both will be memorialized in separate ceremonies in coming weeks.”
Joely, daughter of Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens, grew up right next to Carrie and Debbie in Malibu.
“We spent the better part of our childhoods as neighbors, our two families right next door,” she wrote. “I adored Mama Debbie — she was such a character. And I got another sister and a brother in the deal, right there on the beach!”
There is an upcoming HBO documentary highlighting both Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’ respective careers but also their deep relationship with each other. The documentary will be called ‘Bright Lights’ and the trailer for it is already out.
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