![]() If you can declare something, it has less power over you. I’ve always used this as a sort of survival technique. So, why take your most intimate personal information and put it onstage? We sat down with the witty artist formerly known as Princess Leia (or, for you young-guns, the campy den mother in new college-slasher flick Sorority Row) for a frank discussion about dancing with the skeletons in her closet onstage-and why her show has a lesson or two for Next to Normal. ![]() ![]() Which is probably why her one-woman show Wishful Drinking, a wry exploration of everything from her notorious Star Wars fame to the addictions that eventually landed her in a psych ward, is entertaining enough to have nabbed a spot at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, where it will open on October 4. It’s just that, for her, drug addiction, cheating parents, failed romances, mental illness and a gay husband don’t fall into the category of “private.” You can trace some of that back to an overexposed childhood-the daughter of Singin’ in the Rain icon Debbie Reynolds and “Oh My Papa” crooner Eddie Fisher, Carrie had her picture splashed across magazine covers before she was more than a few weeks old-and some to the fact that Fisher honestly doesn’t give a damn what you think about her. It’s not that Carrie Fisher doesn’t enjoy her privacy. ![]()
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