' Wishful Drinking is a touching & incisive account of bipolarity addiction & motherhood' Independent No motive is pure No one is good or bad
- but a hearty mix of both & sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away' Carrie Fisher in Wishful Drinking In Wishful Drinking Carrie Fisher told the true & intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit Born to celebrity parents she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old " But it isn't all sweetness & light sabres" Alas aside from a demanding career & her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo) Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction & weathering the wild ride of manic depression It's an incredible tale from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon & from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man to ultimately waking up one morning & finding a friend dead beside her in bed Carrie Fisher's star-studded career included roles in numerous films such as The Blues Brothers & When Harry Met Sally She was the author of four bestselling novels Surrender in the Pink Delusions of Grandma The Best Awful & Postcards from the Edge which was made into a hit film starring Shirley Mac Laine & Meryl Streep Carrie's experience with addiction & mental illness
- & her willingness to talk honestly about them
- made her a sought-after speaker & respected advocate She was truly one of the most magical people to walk among us Further praise for Carrie Fisher-Shockaholic is the finest funniest chronicler of the maddest celebrity mores' Sunday Times' Fisher has a talent for lacerating insight that masquerades as carefree self-deprecation' Los Angeles Times' She is one of the rare inhabitants of La-La Land who can actually write' New York Times