Fisher wisecracked in her book that that would make for a “fantastic obit,” adding: “I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”

Fisher would make a lot of wisecracks about the role that made her pop-culture royalty and led Reynolds to note ruefully she was now regarded as the mother of Princess Leia. I reached up under Nina’s shirt, checked out the surgery, and praised Nina’s after-market rack. I feel like a lot of the time Leia’s either worried or pissed or, thank God, sort of snarky. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”

And when it came to dealing with addiction, she told Charlie Rose in 2009: “I’m proud of myself that I’ve been able to get through this stuff, and I’ve been able to — I can’t overcome it, but I can use it. Though we all fell in love with her interview appearances during the promotional cycle for 2015's The Force Awakens, she had been doing this—that is, giving every interviewer more wit, thoughtfulness, and well-meaning aggression than the average celebrity—for years.
American actress Debbie Reynolds has a stroke and dies one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher's death.