Carrie Fisher

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2011

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Carrie Fisher is perhaps best known as Princess Leia from the seminal Star Wars films, but she began her celebrity life as a baby — the daughter of America's sweethearts, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Carrie battled addiction, mental illness and the ups and downs of celebrity to reinvent herself as a successful novelist and memoirist. Her new memoir, Shockaholic, is out now.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Greg from Omaha.
0:02.0	I'm Michael from Baltimore.
0:03.5	Hey, I'm Dave from Portland, Oregon.
0:05.5	The sound of young Americans produced independently
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0:10.0	If you'd like to support the show like I did.
0:12.0	Just visit maximumfund.org slash donate.
0:15.5	I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
0:18.5	It's the sound of young America from maximumfund.org
0:22.0	and PRI, public radio, international.
0:30.5	It's the sound of young America.
0:32.0	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:33.0	My guest on the program is Carrie Fisher.
0:37.0	She started her life as the child of literally America's
0:42.0	sweethearts, the singer Eddie Fisher
0:45.0	and the actress Debbie Reynolds.
0:47.0	She was a successful professional actress by the time
0:52.0	she left her teenage years.
0:54.0	But also to be perfectly frank, kind of a mess.
0:58.0	She has transformed her life as a writer
1:02.0	in the past 20 years or so with bestselling novels
1:06.0	and memoirs and an autobiographical stage show
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