James Blunt has blamed the pressure of the Star Wars workload for Carrie Fisher’s drugs relapse.The Princess Leia actor died in 2016 after suffering a cardiac arrest on board a flight from London to Los Angeles.
She was 60 years old.The coroner’s report later confirmed that cocaine plus “traces” of heroin and MDMA (also known as ecstasy) had been found in her system.
TMZ reported at the time that morphine, codeine and oxycodone were also present.Blunt – who once lived with Fisher in LA, and described her as his “best, best friend” – opened up about the late star’s final days during a recent appearance at the 2024 Hay Festival (via Music News).“I just knew that the day before she died when she came back to my house, and she’d been really mistreating her body and she’d just got the job again of being Princess Leia in the new Star Wars movies,” he told the audience.“So she’s really on a high and positive, but they had applied a lot of pressure on her to be thin, which is what they do.
So she spoke about the difficulties that women have in the industry that men are allowed to grow old and women are not.”Blunt continued: “She had to really put a lot of pressure on herself and started abusing drugs again… So by the time she got on the plane, she had practically killed herself.
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