Mark Hamill says he is “still not over” Carrie Fisher’s death
Mark Hamill has admitted that he is “still not over” Carrie Fisher‘s death.
The Princess Leia actor died in 2016 after suffering a cardiac arrest on board a flight from London to Los Angeles. She was 60 years old.
The coroner’s report later confirmed that cocaine plus “traces” of heroin and MDMA (also known as ecstasy) had been found in her system. TMZ reported at the time that morphine, codeine and oxycodone were also present.
Speaking in a new interview with E! News, Hamill said: “I’ve never stopped missing her. When I hung out with Carrie, you were guaranteed to laugh all day.
“We were brother and sister in more than one way, where we would fight too. And then, days later, it was all forgotten. She was marvellous, and losing her was something that I still haven’t gotten over.”
Last year, Hamill and Fisher’s daughter Billy Lourd paid an emotional tribute to the late actor as her Hollywood Walk of Fame star was unveiled on Star Wars Day (May 4).
In May this year, James Blunt blamed the pressure of the Star Wars workload for Carrie Fisher’s drugs relapse.
Speaking about her final days he said: “I just knew that the day before she died when she came back to my house, and she’d been really mistreating her body and she’d just got the job again of being Princess Leia in the new Star Wars movies.
“So she’s really on a high and positive, but they had applied a lot of pressure on her to be thin, which is what they do. So she spoke about the difficulties that women have in the industry that men are allowed to grow old and women are not.”
Blunt continued: “She had to really put a lot of pressure on herself and started abusing drugs again… So by the time she got on the plane, she had practically killed herself. They said it was a heart failure but she had taken enough drugs to have a great party.”
During an interview with NME last November, Blunt also revealed that a visit to the Fisher’s house had inspired his song ‘Dark Thought’.
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