Three years after the death of Carrie Fisher, her brother Todd Fisher has revealed he unearthed a letter written by the star about death.
He has no idea how he hadn’t come across the note – which he insists was penned by his sister, who died on 27 December, 2016, following a heart attack – before, but was baffled when he uncovered it in their mother Debbie Reynolds’ drawers.
Todd has no idea when she wrote the note, but penned it about death and being in a ‘new heavenly location’.
Telling The New York Post, Carrie’s note was scrawled on a dedication page ripped from a book by the English writer Adrian Tinniswood.
‘I am dead. How are you? I’ll see you soon … I would call and tell you what this is like, but there is no reception up here. Cut. New scene, new setup, new heavenly location,’ the note read. ‘I have finally got the part that I have been rehearsing for all my life. God gave me the part.
‘This is the end of the road I have been touring on all my life.’
He explained: ‘Either it was something Carrie wrote long ago because she was doing a story on death, or it just materialised from beyond.
‘She was writing as if she was dead and what it was like … It just blew my mind. I thought, “Wow, why am I finding this right now?” I know Carrie’s writing inside and out. It’s unmistakable.’
Everyone is coming to terms with Carrie’s death more so after her final scenes ever were aired in The Rise Of Skywalker, which landed in cinemas late last week.
Her character, Princess Leia Organa, was able to appear in her role as commander of the Resistance due to unused footage from 2015’s The Force Awakens.
Speaking to Metro.co.uk amid the cinematic release of the Lucasfilm epic, Kelly Marie Tran (who plays Resistance member Rose Tico) admitted she had to separate her emotions from her job in making it through the scenes she knew Carrie would be in.
‘It’s crazy because that’s an actor thought and not a character though, if that makes sense?’ she tells us of filming the monumental and meaningful moments. ‘Me as Kelly acknowledging and realising all those things, but me as Rose not being aware of any of that.’
She continues: ‘It was definitely hard to draw that line between what is actor stuff and what was character stuff. For the most part I was just trying to be in that character.
‘Watching it after the fact has been such a beautiful experience to see how incredible [Carrie] is in this movie and that her intelligence and wit lives on.’
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise Of Skywalker is in cinemas now.
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