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James Blunt has claimed that Carrie Fisher was “mistreating her physique” earlier than her demise in 2016, as a consequence of Star Wars bosses placing “strain on her to be skinny”.
The “You’re Lovely” singer, 50, was discussing his memoir Loosely Based mostly on a Made-Up Story at Hay Pageant, when he reminisced about his late buddy Fisher, who died out of the blue aged 60 in 2016.
Blunt and Fisher met by way of mutual mates within the Noughties and struck up an unlikely bond. He ended up shifting into her Los Angeles house – the place she and her mom, the actor and singer Debbie Reynolds, additionally lived – and he recorded his first album, 2004’s Again to Bedlam, whereas staying there.
Blunt has beforehand revealed he was with the Princess Leia actor the evening earlier than she was discovered unresponsive on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She died days later, and a toxicology report discovered she had cocaine, heroin, MDMA and methadone in her system.
“I used to be together with her the day earlier than she died, when she got here all the way down to my home,” he advised audiences at Hay. “And she or he’d been actually mistreating her physique, and she or he’d simply obtained the job once more of being Princess Leia in a brand new Star Wars film.
“So she was actually on a excessive and a optimistic, however they’d utilized a whole lot of strain on her to be skinny. She spoke concerning the difficulties that ladies have within the trade, how males are allowed to develop outdated, and girls are definitely not in movie and TV.”
He added: “And she or he actually put a whole lot of strain on herself, began utilizing medicine once more and by the point she obtained on the aircraft, she had successfully killed herself.
“They are saying it was coronary heart failure of some type, however she had taken sufficient medicine to have a very good social gathering.”
The Impartial has contacted Rian Johnson, who directed the 2017 movie Star Wars: The Final Jedi, for remark. Lucasfilm has additionally been contacted. Fisher had accomplished filming her position as Leia within the The Final Jedi shortly earlier than her demise.
In Blunt’s memoir, he beforehand wrote about how Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd, “blames” him, partly, for her mom’s demise.
“Charlie, her finest buddy, confronted her extra straight and advised her she wanted to give up medicine,” he wrote. “I took a unique strategy and did them together with her, pretending to myself that I might information her to redemption in the future – simply not at the moment. Consequently, her daughter Billie blames me partly for her demise, and not speaks to me.”
Throughout the discuss, Blunt additionally mentioned his therapy by the tabloid press, his telephone being hacked, his expertise of being a British soldier in Kosovo, and the backlash to his 2004 tune “You’re Lovely”.
Fisher was the daughter of a Hollywood energy couple, film star Reynolds and entertainer Eddie Fisher, however achieved her personal fame portraying Princess Leia within the cinematic area saga from 1977. Other than the Star Wars films, she additionally appeared in When Harry Met Sally, Drop Useless Fred, and the TV comedy Disaster, to call only a few of her display screen credit.
When Fisher died, Star Wars director Lucas stated that he and the actor had been “mates most of our grownup lives”. “She was extraordinarily sensible; a proficient actress, author and comedienne with a really vibrant persona that everybody cherished,” he stated in a press release. “In Star Wars she was our nice and highly effective princess – feisty, clever and filled with hope in a task that was harder than most individuals may suppose.”
Hay Pageant runs from 23 Could to 2 June in Hay-on-Wye; hayfestival.com
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