Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60

[MinervaItalica]

RIP...

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Carrie Fisher, the actress best known as Star Wars‘ Princess Leia Organa, has died after suffering a heart attack. She was 60.

Family spokesman Simon Halls released a statement to PEOPLE on behalf of Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd:

“It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning,” reads the statement.

“She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly,” says Lourd, 24. “Our entire family thanks you for your thoughts and prayers.”

Fisher was flying from London to Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 23, when she went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics removed her from the flight and rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she was treated for a heart attack. She later died in the hospital.

Full article: http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/

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RIP..

[MissMischief]

I read "Wishful Drinking" (her autobiographical humor book) a few years ago, when a friend lent me his Kindle on vacation, and it happened to be the next book in the queue. I laughed on every page, and sent the book to my mother. After she read it, she told me that she choked up and cried during several passages, and then I realized it wasn't a hilarious character I'd been reading about, but a human being who had gone through hell most of her life, and I saw the book, and Carrie Fisher, in a whole new, different light.

RIP Ms. Fisher.