Lael ArringtonThe Tragic Irony of Star Wars Rogue One: The Princess of Hope dies, drug abuse a likely factor – Lael Arrington https://laelarrington.com Faith and Culture: Live Wisely Love Well Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 73081510 The Tragic Irony of Star Wars Rogue One: The Princess of Hope dies, drug abuse a likely factor https://laelarrington.com/2016/12/the-tragic-irony-of-star-wars-rogue-one-the-princess-of-hope-dies-of-probable-drug-abuse/ https://laelarrington.com/2016/12/the-tragic-irony-of-star-wars-rogue-one-the-princess-of-hope-dies-of-probable-drug-abuse/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2016 13:27:25 +0000 admin http://laelarrington.com/?p=3958 When we walked in the door from watching the new Rogue One Star Wars movie last night we heard the sad news: Distraught over her daughter, Carrie Fisher’s  death yesterday, Debbie Reynolds had just died of a stroke.

(Slight spoiler alert) We had just watched a digitally young Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia in the final scene of Rogue One. One of the rebels hands her electronic intelligence delivered at the cost of many lives. When he asked what she’s been given, she lights up a smile and answers, “Hope.” But in a tragic irony, yesterday sixty-year old Fisher died of cardiac arrest in the wake of years of the kind of drug abuse that damages your heart. Now, her elderly mama appears to have died from a broken heart.

In a 1990 interview with Larry King Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia said, ““One of the side effects of Percodan (a narcotic painkiller) is euphoria, and I thought that was a side effect that I could easily live with. Doesn’t matter that the rest of them that follow that are palpitations, heart attack and death. I couldn’t get over euphoria.”

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