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“Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher was in critical condition Friday after suffering a “cardiac episode” during a flight from London to Los Angeles, according to emergency officials.
LOS ANGELES >> “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher was in stable condition Friday after suffering a medical emergency, her brother said.
Fisher was “out of emergency” and stabilized at a Los Angeles hospital, Todd Fisher told The Associated Press.
He said he could not discuss any other details about what happened to his sister.
Carrie Fisher, 60, experienced medical trouble during a flight from London and was treated by paramedics immediately after the plane landed in Los Angeles, according to reports citing unnamed sources.
Celebrity website TMZ, which first reported the incident, said anonymous sources told them the actress suffered a heart attack.
Fisher’s publicists and representatives for her mother, Debbie Reynolds, and her daughter, Billie Lourd, did not immediately return calls from the AP.
Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott said paramedics administered advanced life-saving care to a patient at Los Angeles International Airport Friday and transported the person to a nearby hospital. He did not identify the patient as Fisher.
Fisher is considered a member of Hollywood royalty — her parents are Reynolds and the late singer Eddie Fisher.
Catapulted to stardom as Princess Leia in 1977’s “Star Wars,” Carrie Fisher reprised the role as the leader of a galactic rebellion in three sequels, including last year’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
The author and actress may be best known for her portrayal of Leia, but she is also an accomplished writer known for no-holds-barred accounts of her struggles with addiction and mental illness.
Her thinly veiled autobiography “Postcards from the Edge” was adapted into a 1987 film version starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep. She also transformed her one-woman show “Wishful Drinking,” which played on Broadway and was filmed for HBO, into a book.
Most recently, Fisher has been promoting her latest book, “The Princess Diarist,” in which she reveals that she and co-star Harrison Ford had an affair on the set of “Star Wars.”
“May the force be with her”. No joke .
My prayers for a recovery. May God be with her.
Prayers DO work. Thank you God.
Truly, wishing for a rapid recovery….
She looks great in her latest movie “Rogue One”
Read in another article that she stopped breathing for about ten minutes. If that’s true, it does not look good. Wasn’t Joan Rivers in a similar situation? I think Rivers was having a routine medical procedure in New York and she stopped breathing for about ten minutes also. After Rivers was hospitalized, her daughter flew in from California and they decided to pull the plug. Does anyone remember if that is the case?
Yep. Remember and I think you’re correct.
Hope she has a speedy recovery….