![]() “My father was a short Jewish man,” she once said. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.”Īlthough Fisher confessed that she saw her father “more on TV than on the planet,” she still found herself gravitating towards him-and when he was not available, as was often the case, to his likeness instead. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. “That was therapeutic for me in those days. ![]() I wrote from when I was 12,” she also said. “I wanted to impress my father, who is unimpressable.My family called me ‘the bookworm’ and they didn’t say it in a nice way. “I started reading really early,” Fisher admitted to The Los Angeles Times in 2008. I was a clumsy-looking and intensely awkward, insecure girl.I decided then that I’d better develop something else-if I wasn’t going to be pretty, maybe I could be funny or smart.” “I think it was when I was ten that I realized with profound certainty that I would not be, and was in no way now, the beauty that my mother was. “She was so beautiful, and I dreamed of looking like her one day,” Fisher wrote in her memoir. “I overheard people saying, "She thinks she’s so great because she’s Debbie Reynolds’ daughter!" And I didn’t like it it made me different from other people and I wanted to be the same.” “When we went out, people sort of walked over me to get to her, and no, I didn’t like it,” Fisher later reiterated to the New York Times. Whenever the pair went out together, they were interrupted by so many Reynolds fans that “it was not like having private-time with Mom. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.” In her autobiography, Fisher described what it was like entering the world as the offspring of two of the world’s biggest stars:Īs Fisher grew older, she grappled with the notion that her mother “belonged to the world” as much as she belonged to her own children. The first child of pop singer Eddie Fisher and Singin’ in the Rain star Debbie Reynolds (who died one day after Fisher did), Fisher later joked that she-a cynical Hollywood misfit plagued by addiction and bipolar disorder-was “truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. As Mike Nichols used to say, ‘The champagne is flat and the caviar has run out-will it never end?’”įisher’s life began with the same flash-bulb crack that would accompany her to her untimely end. But I also have a lot to be grateful for. But if you have it as a shameful secret, you’re fucked you’re sitting in a room populated by elephants. “The fact that I can make somebody laugh at this stuff-it can be very cathartic,” Fisher said of opening her life up for public consumption. And in a 2009 interview, Fisher told Vanity Fair how sharing her stories-which had an atypical, wry perspective on Hollywood’s usual trappings: stars, addictions, and broken marriages-played a large role in her mental health. While it can be grotesque to watch celebrities publicly lamenting their life’s hand, Fisher used her wit, talent, and experiences to entertain audiences everywhere from movie screens to Twitter streams. ![]() Samaritans Enterprises is a private limited company (01451175).Carrie Fisher, who died Tuesday, had a complex relationship with Hollywood, which she hilariously described in her autographical books, one-woman show, and interviews over her four-decade career. ![]() Samaritans in Scotland is a charity registered in Scotland (SC009843) and incorporated as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. ![]() Samaritans Ireland is a charity registered in the Republic of Ireland (20033668) and incorporated in the Republic of Ireland as a company limited by guarantee (450409). Samaritans is a charity registered in England and Wales (219432) and in Scotland (SC040604) and incorporated in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee (757372). If you could like to make a donation, you can contact our Supporter Care team on If you need a response immediately, it's best to call us on the phone. We're here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Samaritans We're sorry, our website is temporarily unavailable. ![]()
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