Princess Leia was Lit

​In her autobiography, The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia, first tried weed when she was 13 years old. Carrie said she found some left by houseguests and took it. Her famous mother, Debbie Reynolds found out, and rather than being mad, Carrie says she said, “Dear, I thought instead of you going outside and smoking pot where you might get caught and get in trouble. I thought you and I might experiment with it together.” She didn’t take her mother up on the offer: ‘At the time I couldn’t think of anything weirder.’ Carrie’s mother forgot about it, so Carrie and her friend May tried it on their own in their backyard treehouse. Carrie said, "And you've got to figure I enjoyed it, because I ended up experimenting with marijuana for the next six years...”

​Carrie stopped smoking weed while filming Star Wars, but not after sharing some with her co-star Harrison Ford, Mr. Han Solo himself. Carrie wrote that she and Harrisson had short fling while filming the first Star Wars. Carrie said Harrisson’s weed had a “brutal strength,” and that it made her "forget most of 1976.” The brief affair ended when the first Star Wars wrapped. Her love for marijuana ended then, too. Carrie wrote, "Where at the onset it was all giggles and munchies and floating in a friendly haze—it suddenly became creepy and dark and scary.” It could have had something to do with the 19 year old Carrie falling head over heels in love with the 35 year old Harrisson, who wasn’t feeling quite the same love as her. After all, she herself said it was just a 3 month affair where they got together once a week to smoke and have sex. So maybe the strong weed was an association with the strong feelings painfully losing a love. Carrie said, “Though there has been some speculation regarding my drug use during Star Wars, I used nothing other than Harrison’s pot on the weekends during that first film. After that, marijuana was no longer possible for me—it had such a powerful, all-consuming effect on me that I have never used that drug again.”  

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