Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford: does it matter if movie romances are real?
Well, the cat is out of the bag. The moggy in question may be knocking on for 40, and the bag is coming apart at the seams, but no matter: the story can finally be told. In 1976, during the filming of Star Wars, Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia, and Harrison Ford, who was Han Solo, crossed over to the Dark Side and – according to Fisher’s new memoir – had a three-month affair. She was 19 with a stormy Hollywood upbringing behind her and a fledgling drug habit; he was a 33-year-old former carpenter who was married with two children. According to People magazine, to whom Fisher gave an interview ahead of the publication of her new memoir, The Princess Diarist, it is the news “that die-hard fans have wished for since Han Solo and Princess Leia captured hearts on screen
Well, the cat is out of the bag. The moggy in question may be knocking on for 40, and the bag is coming apart at the seams, but no matter: the story can finally be told. In 1976, during the filming of Star Wars, Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia, and Harrison Ford, who was Han Solo, crossed over to the Dark Side and – according to Fisher’s new memoir – had a three-month affair. She was 19 with a stormy Hollywood upbringing behind her and a fledgling drug habit; he was a 33-year-old former carpenter who was married with two children. According to People magazine, to whom Fisher gave an interview ahead of the publication of her new memoir, The Princess Diarist, it is the news “that die-hard fans have wished for since Han Solo and Princess Leia captured hearts on screen