Actress Carrie Fisher holds nothing back. From her Hollywood upbringing to landing the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars at age 19, she lifts the veil and shares a more painful reality than many guessed, including her experience of being diagnosed with bipolar and battling substance abuse. This is her life as she can best remember it. Whispersync narration available (read by Carrie Fisher).

I very nearly bought this at an airport bookstore because of the staff blurb (It was Tattered Cover in Denver, which is why they actually HAD staff blurbs!) The publisher says, "Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time. When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison Ford. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience." Add Audible narration read by the author.