Tag: carrie fisher

refinery29:

Rest In Peace, Carrie Fisher. Iconic Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher died this morning. She was 60

Billie Lourd, Fisher’s daughter, confirmed the death today in an official statement. Issued by family representative Simon Halls, the statement to People reads: “It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning.” Her legacy is incontestable – and probably a lot more than you knew.

micdotcom:

Carrie Fisher’s final advice column helped another person living with bipolar disorder

  • Multi-talented star Carrie Fisher was, among many other things, an advice columnist for the Guardian.
  •  In her final column before her death on Tuesday, she offered heartfelt advice to a person living with bipolar disorder who asked the actress how she was able to live through the illness.
  • “Trying to deal with my mental illness and meet all of my responsibilities at school, work and home feels like a terrible balancing act,” the advice-seeker, identified as Alex, wrote. “Sometimes, I let everything drop. It feels like only a matter of time until the things that I drop shatter irreparably.”
  • Fisher responded by saying that, by dealing with a bipolar diagnosis at such a young age, Alex was already far ahead of the curve. 
  • Fisher also stressed that Alex needed to find some kind of community of other people living with mental illness. 
  • The actress spoke about her own experiences facing her alcoholism by going to meetings that she didn’t like to attend. She eventually learned that she didn’t have to like them, but she had to go.
  • “My comfort wasn’t the most important thing — my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was,” Fisher wrote. “However long it might seem to take and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.”
  • Fisher said that both she and Alex were facing a “challenging illness,” but there was “no other option than to meet those challenges” and to be an example to others who shared their diagnosis.  
  • “That’s why it’s important to find a community — however small — of other bipolar people to share experiences and find comfort in the similarities,” Fisher said. “You’re ahead of the game. You’re doing more than I did at your age, and that’s courageous.” Read more

angelica-church:

carrie fisher isn’t just princess leia. carrie fisher isn’t just an actress we all admire from a famous series of movies made a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. carrie fisher isn’t just another name on the list of shitty things 2016 has done to people i admire.

carrie fisher is a woman who struggled with addiction and mental illness and never sugar coated it – she spoke honestly, openly, about every ugly truth, and made me so much less ashamed of the things i struggle with in my daily life.

carrie fisher is a woman who fought back against body shaming and misogyny, against agesim, who looked at critics and said “yes, i am a woman who has aged, and had children, and struggled with depression and addiction and my body has changed, so you can just shut the fuck up and deal with it”, and it was absolutely beautiful.

carrie fisher is a woman who was placed in the role of “princess” but didn’t conform to the typical hollywood idea of what a princess should be. she’s loud, brash, crass, and unapologetic for being so.

she’s an idol and an inspiration and she’s a woman who saved my life many times just by being who she was and never shying away from it or feeling the need to say sorry. carrie fisher is so much and more and i cannot begin to stomach the thought of 2016 taking her away from me, from her family, from the rest of the world and those of us who love her so dearly.

i love you, space momma. we all do. keep fighting the good fight.