Ystävän mukaan Disney oli osasyyllinen Carrie Fisherin kuolemaan

Carrie Fisher singahti kaiken kansan tietoisuuteen vuonna 1977, kun hänet nähtiin Star Warsin prinsessa Leiana. Toki Fisher teki urallaan muutakin, mutta juuri Star Warsin Leiana hänet aina muistetaan.

Viimeiseksi elokuvaksi jäi Star Wars: The Last Jedi, joka sai ensi-iltansa Fisherin kuoleman jälkeen. Fisher kärsi riippuvuuksista, mutta ystävä James Bluntin mukaan Disneyltä tullut paine laihduttaa oli osasyy Fisherin kuolemaan.

"I was with her the day before she died, when she came down to my house. And she'd been really mistreating her body, and she'd just got the job again of being Princess Leia in a new Star Wars movie. So she was really on a high and a positive, but they had applied a lot of pressure on her to be thin. She spoke about the difficulties that women have in the industry, how men are allowed to grow old, and women are certainly not in film and TV. And she really put a lot of pressure on herself, started using drugs again and by the time she got on the plane, she had effectively killed herself. They say it was heart failure of some kind, but she had taken enough drugs to have a really good party."

Toisaalta taas Bluntin mukaan Carrie Fisherin tytär Billie Lourd pitää Bluntia osasyyllisenä äitinsä kuolemaan. Tämä siksi, ettei Blunt riittävän selvästi rohkaissut Fisheriä pysymään erossa huumeista.

"Charlie, her best friend, confronted her more directly and told her she needed to quit drugs. I took a different approach and did them with her, pretending to myself that I would guide her to redemption one day - just not today. As a result, her daughter Billie blames me in part for her death, and no longer speaks to me."

Kiitokset, Gazette