'You Lost Princess Leia, I Lost My Hero.' Joely Fisher Remembers Her Sister Carrie
Joely Fisher has penned an emotional tribute to her half-sister Carrie Fisher in which she describes the late Star Wars actor as “my hero, my mentor, my mirror.” Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, Joely, an actor and singer, revealed that she had been texting with Carrie the night before she reportedly suffered a heart attack on board a plane from London to Los Angeles late last year. Three days later, Fisher died in intensive care.
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Joely Fisher has penned an emotional tribute to her half-sister Carrie Fisher in which she describes the late Star Wars actor as “my hero, my mentor, my mirror.” Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, Joely, an actor and singer, revealed that she had been texting with Carrie the night before she reportedly suffered a heart attack on board a plane from London to Los Angeles late last year. Three days later, Fisher died in intensive care. During their conversation, the half-sisters discussed Joely’s 20-year wedding anniversary, Carrie’s “somewhat less steady love life,” their children and “a dozen other subjects” before promising to spend Christmas together. “It’s a promise we kept, although not in a way either of us had anticipated,” Joely wrote.
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- Joely Fisher has penned an emotional tribute to her half-sister Carrie Fisher in which she describes the late Star Wars actor as “my hero, my mentor, my mirror.” Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, Joely, an actor and singer, revealed that she had been texting with Carrie the night before she reportedly suffered a heart attack on board a plane from London to Los Angeles late last year. Three days later, Fisher died in intensive care.
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'You Lost Princess Leia, I Lost My Hero.' Joely Fisher Remembers Her Sister Carrie
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