Was Carrie Fisher friends with Harrison Ford?

Was Carrie Fisher friends with Harrison Ford?

Carrie Fisher revealed in 2016 that she and Harrison Ford once had an affair. In her final memoir, The Princess Diarist, she said the sexual relationship took place while filming Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope. After shooting wrapped, Fisher and Ford parted ways and remained friends through the years.

What was the age difference between Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher?

Fisher was 19 years old. Ford was 34 and turned 25 in July 1976.

What was the relationship between Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford like?

• Carrie Fisher is finally going public with a secret she has guarded closely for 40 years: When she was 19, she and Harrison Ford, then a 33-year-old married father of two, had a whirlwind three-month affair while filming the original Star Wars in 1976.

What is Fisher's conclusion about her affair with Ford?

• The book doesn’t have any warm and thoughtful conclusions where Fisher realizes the affair was emotionally traumatic for her, or that she wasn’t entirely to blame for it going badly. Instead, Fisher worries that she’s still awkward around Ford, and that she makes him uncomfortable.

What was Princess Diarist's relationship with Harrison Ford like?

• More than a third of Princess Diarist is devoted to her talking in mournful circles around their hook-ups. While carefully avoiding any intimate details, she portrays Ford as monosyllabic, withholding, forbidding, and intimidating. In public, she says, he largely ignored her. In private, they had sex, but barely spoke to each other.

Where did Carrie Fisher go to George Lucas' birthday party?

• In London for the filming of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope, Fisher attends George Lucas’ birthday party, where she’s “essentially the only girl” in a room full of hard-drinking crew who are loudly whinging that they’d rather shoot in “a nice remote location… where there’s no bloody shortage of strange but friendly quim.”