Carrie Fisher's Extraordinary Autobiography: An Excerpt

Daily Mail:

Mom and Dad were great friends with Elizabeth Taylor and her husband Mike Todd. Mike died in a plane crash in 1958, when I was two, and my dad flew to Elizabeth's side, making his way slowly to her front.

He first dried her eyes with his handkerchief, then he consoled her with flowers, and he ultimately consoled her by sleeping with her.

This made marriage to my mother awkward, so he was gone within the week. If Mom and Dad were Jennifer and Brad, then Elizabeth Taylor was Angelina Jolie. I saw more of Dad on television than in real life.

He later wrote his autobiography, Been There, Done That - well, he called it an autobiography, but I thought of it more as a novel. I like to call it Been There, Done Them, because it really was just about the women he'd slept with and how the sex was and what their bodies were like (so it is a feelgood read).

But after I read it, I wanted to get my DNA fumigated.

Anyway, Dad's absence meant my younger brother Todd and I were brought up by our mother in our modern house, which I called 'the Embassy' because it looked less like a house than a place you would get your passport stamped.

It had things most normal houses didn't have, such as eight little pink refrigerators and three pools ... you know, in case two broke.

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Comments

[eddieflorida]

i guess carrie forgot what she said in her ew.com interview feb '07.

when asked: If you were going to have plastic surgery, what would it be?

she answered: I'm not really that type. My dad [has done] stuff like that. I'm afraid to do it, because people come out looking like other people.

yikes!! it's hard to look at her now because of the reminder of what we lost. it's as hard as losing jennifer grey's wonderful nose.

i wish our stars, especially the ones we've loved for so long, wouldn't send out such awful and strong messages that we aren't good enough as we are.

so sad.

[DeeW]

I enjoyed Postcards from the Edge - so this sould be interesting. I thought this was a photo of Mary Tyler Moore though. Wow - doesn't look anything like Carrie Fisher!

[NoSillyName]

Didn't she already write a memoir? "Postcards From the Edge"? That was her, right?

[AngryAmish]

"Postcards" was a roman a clef, not a memoir.

[harriettubman]

Like the book or not, this is what happens to rich, neglected children when all the public can think about is coveting the life they have. Not too many wealthy children have great things to say about their childhoods and that is quite sad.

Tori Spelling's mother had the audacity to get angry with her because Tori said she was raised by her nanny. If it happened to Tori, why can't she write about it? No one knows what goes in behind closed doors and it appears people with too much money don't know how to raise children. Sending children off to boarding school is not raising a child.

[Harpseal60]

Wow, if you didn't have her name next to the picture, I would have never known this was Carrie Fisher. Too much plastic surgery is always a bad thing. It should be used to enchance your beauty, not to make you look completely like someone else. She was prettier before.

[cdub1991]

When did she morph into Mary Tyler Moore?

[DeeW]

I know! I said the same thing. Weird.

[one4obama]

Carrie Fisher is just ONE more example of why people should stay away from the knife and needles and just grow older naturally.

Does not even remotely resemble Carrie Fisher.

[CammyV]

And who is that woman in the photo with the article? It bears no resemblance to Carrie Fisher, unless we just didn't get to the chapter on radical cosmetic surgery.

[Blurp]

She's such a narcissist, but you gotta love her.

[lmvd3]

I have always thought Fisher is hysterically funny. And her mother is every bit as funny. How can you not put this stuff in a book?!? Anything involving Reynolds and Fisher is the best comedy material around.

[Promise]

You're right--she does look like Mary Tyler Moore! Amazing. I read Postcards from the Road, Fisher's earlier book and thought she was very smart and funny. Now, this one...not-so-much. I guess I think that by this time she would have gotten over her adolescent anger. She seems to try awfully hard to make her mother look dumb...i guess that way she gets to be the smart one. Maybe that's all she has to say and I guess she has to earn a living. But really, who cares anymore about what Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor did?

[Elizabeth]

good lord! doctor 90210's plastic created someone who doesn't resemble carrie.

[coastalcarla]

What on earth did she do to her face? I thought it was Mary Tyler Moore at first. wow.

[cactusgal]

I thought it was MTM as well!!! The last time I saw MTM on TV it looked like they were filming her through velvet.

[OhComeOnNow]

Interesting plastic surgery - better than most.

[Forester]

Saw her one-person show at the Berkeley Rep - not so good, and more info than we really needed.