Carrie Fisher Started Taking Drugs Again Before Her Death To Lose Weight For Star Wars, Says Pal James Blunt!

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Carrie Fisher got back on drugs to slim down for the Star Wars sequels… At least that’s what her pal James Blunt says.

The English singer has stirred up some disturbing details about the late actress while promoting his memoir, Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story, at the Hay Festival in Wales recently.

He claims “she’d been really mistreating her body” after getting “the job again of being Princess Leia in a new Star Wars movie.” Carrie, of course, stepped back into the iconic role for 2015’s The Force Awakens and 2017’s The Last Jedi, over three decades years after last playing the role in 1983’s Return of the Jedi.

She died in December 2016 before she could film the third installment — a tragedy Blunt now seems to be implying may have been caused by the films themselves! Related: Scott Disick’s Weight Loss Meds On Full Display During The Kardashians Premiere According to The Independent, James, who was a good friend of Carrie’s and even lived with her while recording his 2004 album Back to Bedlam, revealed the sad fact he “was with her the day before she died.” He explained how the star “was really on a high and a positive” after bring brought back to the big screen, “but they had applied a lot of pressure on her to be thin” for the movie: As a hot Hollywood script doctor and occasional character actress, Carrie hadn’t had to focus on being slim for decades.