James Blunt is shedding new mild on what his shut pal Carrie Fisher was going via proper earlier than her 2016 loss of life.
The British “You’re Beautiful” singer spoke in regards to the “Star Wars” alum — who he refers to as his “American mother” in his bio on his official web site — throughout a latest look on the Hay Competition in Wales whereas selling his memoir, “Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story,” the Impartial reviews.
In keeping with the outlet, Blunt instructed the viewers that Fisher was pushed to drastically change her look after she was requested to reprise her iconic function of Princess Leia in a brand new trilogy of “Star Wars” movies.
Fisher was set to play the character once more in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” which was launched after her loss of life in 2017.
“I was with her the day before she died, when she came down to my house,” Blunt instructed the viewers, per the Impartial. “And she’d been really mistreating her body.”
“So she was really on a high and a positive, but they had applied a lot of pressure on her to be thin. She spoke about the difficulties that women have in the industry, how men are allowed to grow old, and women are certainly not.”
“She really put a lot of pressure on herself, started using drugs again and by the time she got on the plane, she had effectively killed herself,” Blunt went on. “They say it was heart failure of some kind, but she had taken enough drugs to have a really good party.”
In 2016, Fisher was flying from London to Los Angeles when she went into cardiac arrest on the airplane. She died days later, and a toxicology report discovered she had cocaine, heroin, MDMA and methadone in her system. The report didn’t state a definitive explanation for loss of life, however the actor and creator had been open about her struggles with substance abuse for years.
Fisher was additionally very open in regards to the strain she confronted to lose 35 lbs. forward of 2015′s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
“They don’t want to hire all of me — only about three-quarters!” Fisher instructed Good Housekeeping UK in 2015.
“Nothing changes, it’s an appearance-driven thing. I’m in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance,” she mentioned. “That is so messed up. They might as well say get younger, because that’s how easy it is.”
HuffPost reached out to “Force Awakens” director J.J. Abrams and “Last Jedi” director Rian Johnson for remark, in addition to to “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and his firm Lucasfilm, however didn’t get a direct response.
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In keeping with Blunt’s web site, he and Fisher struck up an unlikely friendship within the early 2000s once they met at a celebration. Blunt even stayed at Fisher’s Los Angeles residence along with her late mom, Debbie Reynolds, whereas he recorded his first album.
Blunt additionally admitted in his latest memoir that he did medication with Fisher, regardless of figuring out she had substance abuse points.
“Charlie, her best friend, confronted her more directly and told her she needed to quit drugs,” he remembers in his e book. “I took a different approach and did them with her, pretending to myself that I would guide her to redemption one day — just not today. As a result, her — daughter Billie [Lourd] blames me in part for her death, and no longer speaks to me.”
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