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Carrie Fisher, the actress best known for playing Princess Leia in "Star Wars," suffered a massive heart attack aboard an airplane, according to a report.

The 60-year-old Fisher was flying from London to Los Angeles Friday when she went into cardiac arrest, TMZ.com reported.

Passengers began performing CPR. Paramedics rushed her to a nearby hospital after the plane landed about noon, according to TMZ.com.

Her condition was not immediately known.

Filmmaker Anna Akana, who was apparently on board the flight, described the incident in a series of Twitter posts.

“Don't know how else to process this but Carrie Fisher stopped breathing on the flight home,” Akana wrote. “Hope she's gonna be OK.”

Akana thanked the United flight crew “who jumped into action, and the awesome doctor and nurse passengers who helped.”

Fisher has been on an international tour promoting her new book, “The Princess Diarist.”

The book draws on her old diaries to describe her early days in show business.

In the book’s most explosive revelation, Fisher admits that she had an affair with her co-star and onscreen lover Harrison Ford while filming the "Stars Wars" franchise’s first installment in 1976.

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Wow shocking!

In my mind she will always be the young princess but looking at her recent picture I realize how much time's gone by since her first appearance in Star Wars.
 
This is really distressing for people my age. I hope she's okay.

My Facebook and Twitter feeds have gone ballistic.

It's been a vile year for celebrity deaths. If she doesn't make it it will be the most upsetting for me since Paula Yates and her daughter, which for English people of a certain age was incredibly painful.
 
:( The result of a life of excess.

She is looking quite old these days. Even older than our Harrison who has 15 years on her and is still going relatively strong.

Hope she gets better.
 
Carrie Fisher has passed away

US actress Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars series, has died aged 60, days after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Fisher was taken ill on a flight from London to LA on Friday and was taken to hospital when the plane landed.

But a family statement said with "a very deep sadness" she died on Tuesday morning.

Tributes have been pouring in, with Star Wars co-star Mark Hamill simply tweeting: "No words".

In a statement released on behalf of Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd, spokesman Simon Halls said: "It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8.55 this morning.

"She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly. Our entire family thanks you for your thoughts and prayers."

The daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher made her film debut opposite Warren Beatty in 1975's Shampoo.

She also appeared in The Blues Brothers, When Harry Met Sally and Hannah and Her Sisters.

But her enduring fame is through her role as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, a part she reprised in last year's reboot The Force Awakens.

On the part, she told the Daily Mail in 2011 that when she got the role in a "little science-fiction film", she just thought of it as a bit of fun.

"It exploded across the firmament of pop culture, taking all of us along with it. It tricked me into becoming a star all on my own."

She was also a successful writer, publishing several novels and memoirs, and working on the scripts for films like the Wedding Singer and Sister Act.

Fisher endured a difficult private life, and has discussed her years of mental illness and drug addiction through interviews and writing. An early memoir was called Wishful Drinking.

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RIP. So many great people have died this year, in Pakistan and around the world.
 
Rest in peace ladies.

Her mum died of a broken heart.
 
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38621524

The company behind the Star Wars franchise has laid to rest rumours that Carrie Fisher may be digitally recreated for future films after her sudden death last month.

"Lucasfilm has no plans to digitally recreate Carrie Fisher's performance" as Princess Leia, it said.

Fisher died, aged 60, just days after suffering a cardiac arrest last month.

She had already finished filming for the next instalment, Star Wars: Episode VIII, due out at the end of the year.

She was also expected to appear in Episode IX, which is still being scripted and scheduled for release in 2019.

But Lucasfilm, which produces the franchise, says Episode VIII will be Fisher's last, adding: "Carrie Fisher was, is, and always will be a part of the Lucasfilm family.

"She was our princess, our general, and more importantly, our friend. We are still hurting from her loss. We cherish her memory and legacy as Princess Leia, and will always strive to honour everything she gave to Star Wars."

Computer graphics technology was used in the most recent film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, bringing back British actor Peter Cushing - who died in 1994 - to play the role of the Grand Moff Tarkin - which he first played in the original 1977 film.

A digitised version of Fisher from the same year also made a brief appearance in the film. The move was embraced by some fans, but slated by others for being too cartoonish and distracting.

Fisher appeared in four of the Star Wars franchise films, starting with Episode IV in 1977 and most recently in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015.

The actress had been on tour promoting her book The Princess Diarist when she was taken ill on a flight from London to Los Angeles on 23 December.

She never regained consciousness and died four days later at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre.
 
Carrie Fisher will be honoured with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame later, but a family dispute risks overshadowing the occasion.

Hollywood is paying tribute to the late Princess Leia actress on Thursday, May the Fourth - Star Wars Day.

However, a row has erupted between Fisher's daughter and siblings.

Her brother and sisters have criticised Billie Lourd for not inviting them. In response, Lourd accused them of trying to "capitalize on my mother's death".

In 2018, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill led the calls for his co-star to be given her own tile on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

When it was confirmed last month that she would finally receive the honour, he said it was "long overdue and so well-deserved".

However, her brother Todd Fisher said he was not on the guest list to see it be unveiled.

He told TMZ: "It's heartbreaking and shocking to me that I was intentionally omitted from attending this important legacy event for my sister, Carrie."

Half-sister Joely Fisher posted a message on behalf of herself and sister Tricia Leigh Fisher saying: "Strangely we won't be in attendance to celebrate our sister, whom we adored.

"For some bizarre, misguided reason our niece has chosen not to include us in this epic moment in our sister's career.

"This is something Carrie would have definitely wanted her siblings to be present for. The fact that her only brother and two sisters were intentionally and deliberately excluded is deeply shocking."

She added that they had "all been grieving the loss of our favorite human for some years now… we have given Billie the space to do that in her own way".

The siblings had been "nothing but loving and open, consistently", she said.

"This isn't about a photo op on Hollywood Blvd," she wrote. "This is about celebrating the permanency of Carrie's legacy in this industry, taking her place with a star on the iconic walk of fame alongside our parents."

Lourd responded in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter. "I apologize to anyone reading this for feeling the need to defend myself publicly from these family members," she wrote.

"But unfortunately, because they publicly attacked me, I have to publicly respond. The truth is I did not invite them to this ceremony. They know why.

"Days after my mom died, her brother and her sister chose to process their grief publicly and capitalize on my mother's death, by doing multiple interviews and selling individual books for a lot of money, with my mom and my grandmother [actress Debbie Reynolds]'s deaths as the subject.

"I found out they had done this through the press. They never consulted me or considered how this would affect our relationship. The truth of my mom's very complicated relationship with her family is only known by me and those who were actually close to her.

"Though I recognize they have every right to do whatever they choose, their actions were very hurtful to me at the most difficult time in my life. I chose to and still choose to deal with her loss in a much different way."

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