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\n28 May 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\nJames Blunt says Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by \u2018Star Wars\u2019 bosses to be thin for her comeback to the franchise it pushed her to go back to abusing the drugs that led to her death.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nJames Blunt says Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by \u2018Star Wars\u2019 bosses to be thin for her comeback to the franchise it pushed her to go back to abusing the drugs that led to her death<\/p>\n\nThe \u2018You\u2019re Beautiful\u2019 singer, 50, forged an unlikely friendship with the actress, who played Princess Leia in the sci-fi series, and moved into her house in Los Angeles during the 2000s when he was recording his first album \u2013 years before she died in 2016 aged 60.<\/p>\n\nAn autopsy revealed she had a deadly cocktail of drugs in her system including cocaine, ecstasy, alcohol and opiates, which caused her to suffer a cardiac arrest on a flight from London to LA.<\/p>\n\nJames told fans at the Hay literary festival: \u201cI just knew that the day before she died when she came back to my house and she\u2019d been really mistreating her body and she\u2019d just got the job again of being Princess Leia in the new \u2018Star Wars\u2019 movies.<\/p>\n\n\u201cSo she\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\u201cShe had to really put a lot of pressure on herself and started abusing drugs again.<\/p>\n\n\u201cSo by the time she got on the plane, she had practically killed herself. They said it was a heart failure but she had taken enough drugs to have a great party.\u201d<\/p>\n\nCarrie previously said she\u2019d been pressured to lose 35lbs to reprise her role as Princess Leia in 2015\u2019s \u2018Star Wars\u2019 installment \u2018The Force Awakens\u2019, telling Good Housekeeping: \u201cThey don\u2019t want to hire all of me \u2013 only about three-quarters!<\/p>\n\n\u201cNothing changes, it\u2019s an appearance-driven thing. I\u2019m in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. <\/p>\n\n\u201cThat is so messed up. They might as well say get younger, because that\u2019s how easy it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"28 May 2024 James Blunt says Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by \u2018Star Wars\u2019 bosses to be thin for her comeback to the franchise it pushed her to go back to abusing the drugs that led to her death. James Blunt says Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by \u2018Star Wars\u2019 bosses to be thin for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
James Blunt says Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by \u2018Star Wars\u2019 bosses to be thin for her comeback to the franchise it pushed her to go back to abusing the drugs that led to her death.<\/p>\n
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James Blunt says Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by \u2018Star Wars\u2019 bosses to be thin for her comeback to the franchise it pushed her to go back to abusing the drugs that led to her death<\/p>\n
\nThe \u2018You\u2019re Beautiful\u2019 singer, 50, forged an unlikely friendship with the actress, who played Princess Leia in the sci-fi series, and moved into her house in Los Angeles during the 2000s when he was recording his first album \u2013 years before she died in 2016 aged 60.<\/p>\n
\nAn autopsy revealed she had a deadly cocktail of drugs in her system including cocaine, ecstasy, alcohol and opiates, which caused her to suffer a cardiac arrest on a flight from London to LA.<\/p>\n
\nJames told fans at the Hay literary festival: \u201cI just knew that the day before she died when she came back to my house and she\u2019d been really mistreating her body and she\u2019d just got the job again of being Princess Leia in the new \u2018Star Wars\u2019 movies.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSo she\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cShe had to really put a lot of pressure on herself and started abusing drugs again.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSo by the time she got on the plane, she had practically killed herself. They said it was a heart failure but she had taken enough drugs to have a great party.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nCarrie previously said she\u2019d been pressured to lose 35lbs to reprise her role as Princess Leia in 2015\u2019s \u2018Star Wars\u2019 installment \u2018The Force Awakens\u2019, telling Good Housekeeping: \u201cThey don\u2019t want to hire all of me \u2013 only about three-quarters!<\/p>\n
\n\u201cNothing changes, it\u2019s an appearance-driven thing. I\u2019m in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cThat is so messed up. They might as well say get younger, because that\u2019s how easy it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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28 May 2024 James Blunt says Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by \u2018Star Wars\u2019 bosses to be thin for her comeback to the franchise it pushed her to go back to abusing the drugs that led to her death. James Blunt says Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by \u2018Star Wars\u2019 bosses to be thin for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}