Carrie Fisher Update: Read 'Star Wars' Icon's Hilarious Request For Her Obituary [VIDEO]
Carrie Fisher had a special request about a decade ago regarding her obituary, and it might just be the perfect encapsulation of the actress's humor and charm.
Fisher died Tuesday morning after going into cardiac arrest on a plane the week prior. The iconic Star Wars actress was 60. While Fisher would always be most known for playing Princess (later General) Leia in the Star Wars film franchise, her acerbic wit gave her even more success in the world of writing.
The actress wrote a hilarious anecdote for her one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, back in the mid-2000s in which she explained how she wanted to be written about after she died. And it all begins with a quibble with original Star Wars director George Lucas:
"George [Lucas] comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at the dress and says, 'You can't wear a bra under that dress ... because there is no underwear in space,'" Fisher writes. "I promise you this is true, and he says it with such conviction too! Like he had been to space and looked around and he didn't see any bras or panties or briefs anywhere."
She writes that Lucas quipped if she had worn underwear in space and her body ultimately expanded, she would "get strangled by [her] own bra."
That's when Fisher writes one of the best lines of her career:
"Now I think that this would make for a fantastic obit," she writes. "So 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."
And so, Tuesday morning, Fisher indeed drowned in the moonlight, strangled by her own bra. She is survived by mother, Debbie Reynolds, daughter, Billie Lourd, brother, Todd Fisher, and half-sisters, Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher.
