They had an impetuous affair and I was aware of it — not in any huge detail because it was n’t that big of a thing, it was n’t like it was such an ongoing thing. But Carrie Fisher had sworn me to secrecy on it, and no one had ever said anything to my mother.

Todd Fisher

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He had just moved in, and he was showing us around the house, i had just gotten to town and, being a teenager, he assumed that Carrie Fisher and I were smoking a little pot … So he puts his arm around me and he goes, ‘ Hey, man. ’ Puts a couple joints in my pocket, and he goes, ‘ Do n’t go to strangers. ’ I ’d only known him from the movies. I was a little kid when he made the movie ‘ The Rat Race ’ with my mother, and nobody was even thinking in these terms … At that moment, my mother did n’t know Carrie Fisher and I were smoking pot at all. He was even kind of hiding it from her. So it was a little bit of a revelation.

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Carrie Fisher shows it to my mother at some point, and my mother is like, ‘ Meh. Not a good idea to tell the Harrison Ford story, ’ carrie’s like, ‘ Nobody cares anymore. It was so long ago. It’s 30 years, more, 40 years ago, almost. ’ My mom’s like, ‘ Nah, you know, people do care. ’.

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It became a bit of a salacious tale that certain people were offended by or did n’t approve of, it was funny, because Carrie, who’s sort of immune to some types of criticism, she went back to my mom and was like, ‘ Hey, maybe I should n’t have told that story. ’ My mom’s like, ‘ What can I say ? Mothers know a few things. ’.

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I bonded with my mother at a very young age, she was my champion, eventually I became her champion. You know, we had this mutual respect and love for each other. Carrie loved her, but there was a competitive side that went on for a long time until Carrie came into her own, and when she became a great writer and other things.

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Carrie always struggled with living in the shadow of Debbie Reynolds, i never did. I loved being in the shadow of Debbie Reynolds. I mean, it was awesome. I just could n’t understand why Debbie Reynolds struggled with this.

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I went to a lot of events the day of' The Last Jedi,' and I finally got to an event where I actually watched the movie and everything was going great right up until the point that Carrie was in a coma.

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