The World Waves a Goodbye to a
Mother and Daughter
No more than a day after the death of Carrie Fisher on December 27th, 2016, her mother Debbie Reynolds passed away. In two days, the world lost two of its beloved actresses. Carrie Fisher and her mother appeared in Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a 2016 documentary about their close relationship featuring interviews, photographs and home movies. The documentary premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and was set for broadcast on January 7, 2017. The mother and daughter were a well known duo and were always close together, even through their careers.
Carrie Fisher was popularly known for her role as Princess Leia in the movie franchise, Star Wars. She later starred in the movie, When Harry Met Sally. But aside from her evident film career, the beloved Carrie Fisher shed some light on her disorders and addictions on 20/20. Carrie Fisher publicly discussed her bipolar disorder, and how her bipolar moods even had nicknames. She reportedly said that drugs made her feel normal. During the process of filming the Star Wars movies, she used cocaine and on one occasion, she accidentally overdosed on medication and sleeping pills. As of 2014, she said she was no longer receiving treatment or on prescribed drugs. However, that’s not where it ended for Carrie Fisher.
After her passing, she was cremated and her remains were split between a coffin next to her mother's grave and an urn shaped like a Prozac pill. For those of you who don’t know what Prozac is, it is a commonly prescribed antidepressant. Carrie Fisher’s greatest possession in her household was a large Prozac pill she purchased a few years back, thus the urn. Her’s family claims that this is what she would have wanted.