At A Glance: 14 Carrie Fisher Facts Because, Hey, Who Doesn't Like Her?
![At A Glance: 14 Carrie Fisher Facts Because, Hey, Who Doesn't Like Her?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/0/777430_320x180.jpg)
Life is fully of difficulties, and developing a personality is hard. But everyone once in a while, a person comes along who is just beautifully their truest self that we can't help but sit back and marvel at (with a twinge of envy). You know, the types of self-assured, swaggering badasses like Han Solo or Lando Calrissian. OR! A non-fictional person, like Carrie Fisher.
Princess Leia caught our eye, but Carrie Fisher stole our hearts. It takes a lot to somehow be more interesting in Earth-life than as an alien princess with Force powers. She punched up more scripts than IMDB will ever give her credit for, she was never afraid to talk shit, and she was a mental health advocate. She was outspoken, eccentric, and downright witty. We can't say enough nice things about Carrie Fisher, is what we're, um, saying. Here are 14 better ways to remember Carrie Fisher than from that gold bikini.
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER She saw her dad on TV more than in person. Her mother Debbie Reynolds raised her, but her father Eddie Fisher checked in from time to time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/5/777345.jpg)
Source: Wishful Drinking
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher had a copy of the infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special She convinced George Lucas to give her one so that I could, you know, have something for parties... when I wanted everyone to leave. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/2/777342.jpg)
Source: New York Times
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER She was told to lose 10 pounds after being cast as Princess Leia She joked, Well, I weighed about 105 at the time, but to BE fair, I carried about fifty of those pounds in my face! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/7/777347.jpg)
Source: Wishful Drinking
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER George Lucas told her, There's no underwear in space. Per Lucas's direction, instead of a bra, Carrie Fisher wore gaffers tape while in costume. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/8/777428.jpg)
Source: Wishful Drinking
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher was briefly married to Paul Simon. She grew up a fan of his music. Fisher wrote, As a teen, it was just him and Joni Mitchell. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/4/777344.jpg)
Source: Wishful Drinking
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher wrote four novels. Her first novel Postcards from the Edge was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/3/777343.jpg)
Source: Wishful Drinking
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher was outspoken about having bipolar disorder. She described it to a child at Indiana Comic Con in the following way, It is a kind of virus of the brain that makes you go very fast or very sad. Or both. Those are fun days. So judgement isn't, like, one of my big good things. But I have a good voice. I can write well. I'm not a good bicycle rider. So, just like anybody else, only louder and faster and sleeps more. That's it.! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/6/777346.jpg)
Source: Indy Star
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER She was in a Ringo Starr music video. She starred as Starr's love interest in the video for the poorly aged song You're Sixteen You're Beautiful (and You're Mine). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/9/777339.jpg)
Source: YouTube
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER She sent a COW tongue to a predatory producer. After learning a producer assaulted her friend, Carrie Fisher delivered a COW tongue wrapped in a Tiffany box to his LA office. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/8/777338.jpg)
Source: BBC
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER James Blunt recorded Goodbye My Lover in Carrie Fisher's bathroom. When Blunt moved to LA to record his album, Fisher offered for him to stay in her house. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/0/777340.jpg)
Source: People
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher was cast as Miss Scarlet in Clue. The insurance company wouldn't allow the casting, since she had recently checked into outpatient rehab for cocaine. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/7/777337.jpg)
Source: SFist
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher was a script doctor. She worked (uncredited) to polish scripts to films like Hook, Sister Act, Lethal Weapon, and The Wedding Singer. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/6/777336.jpg)
Source: The Mary Sue
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER She never met James Earl Jones until an episode of The Big Bang Theory. o 000 The voice of Darth Vader never went on set, SO the pair didn't officially meet until they both guest starred on the show in 2013. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/5/777335.jpg)
Source: IGN
![AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher's ashes are in an urn shaped like a Prozac pill. Her brother said, Carrie would like that. It was her favorite thing... CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/4/777334.jpg)
Source: Rolling Stone