“My childhood hero went from princess to general,”
“Princess Leia was the first hero I looked up to. A sassy bride who takes over her own rescue and strösslar bad comments around. “
“And she can handle a blaster.”
“But really it was the actor Carrie Fisher, who was the real hero. With humor and sincerity she invited in her fight against drug abuse and mental illness.”
“I’m not so old but the world was still different when I grew up. “
“”Xena – the warrior princess” went in and out of afternoon tv, but it was sparsely between the female heroes on the silver screen. We had not Captain Marvel or Black widow. And Wonder woman was just something mossigt from the 70’s. “
“But I had ”Star Wars” and princess Leia. She was cool, she was bitsk and a true rebel, despite the fact that she was a princess.”
“And sometimes, it happens something anyway. “
“Almost 40 years after the first film came Leia back in Star Wars: The force awakens”. As a general. As a leader. Like a fucking boss.”
“And her actor, Carrie Fisher, was something out of the ordinary. She was born into the Hollywood elite, the daughter of the superstar Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, and lived next door to Elisabeth Taylor.”
“She was an actor, a screenwriter and wrote several autobiographies. In ”Postcards from the edge” and ”Wishful drinking”, she makes up with his abuse. “
“she never had a hard time talking about it difficult.”
“She was open with her that she suffered from mental illness, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was 24. “
“She tried to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol in order to calm down the manic periods and depressionerna. It ended with a drug overdose at 28. “
“Then she began to go to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and tried to take hold of their health. She tested for and with the commencement of ”to blow away evil in the brain”.”
“In a frågespalt in The Guardian (with the appropriate name of ”Advice from the dark side”), she wrote to a reader with bipolar disorder:”
“We’ve got a challenging disease, and there is nothing else to do than to meet the challenge. Think of it as an opportunity to be heroic. Not the ”I survived an attack in Mosul”-brave, but an emotional modighet. An opportunity to be a good example for others who are in our situation.””
“In the ”Wishful drinking” question the she the stigma, and calls for, instead, a medal for living with the disease:”
“”Sometimes it is a overwhelming challenge to be bipolar, it takes a lot of perseverance and courage, so if you are living with this disease and at all works so it is something to be proud of, not something to be ashamed of.””
“With his sense of humor, openness and honesty so inspires she others to dare to talk about mental illness.”
“And long before the Metoo gave many the courage to speak up for sexual harassment so managed Carrie Fisher them on their way. Once she gave personally a kotunga wrapped in a Tiffany-box to a tafsande Hollywoodproducent who had been her pal Heather Robinson. There was a note with the text ”If you ever touch my Heather or any other woman again, will the next delivery be anything from you in a very less ash”.”
“such A pal, I want to have. Or be. “
“A hero in their own way.”