James Blunt says studio pressure to be thin for Disney Star Wars spin-offs led to close friend Carrie Fisher's drug relapse and death at the age of 60 By Dolly Busby Showbusiness Reporter Published: 00:11 BST, 28 May 2024 | Updated: 01:04 BST, 28 May 2024 e-mail 17 shares 15 View comments James Blunt has revealed Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by the Star Wars bosses to be thin at 60 years old that it drove her to abuse drugs again which ultimately led to her death. The You’re Beautiful hitmaker was close friends with Fisher, famed for playing Princess Leia in the franchise, and lived at her house in LA during the 2000s when he was recording his debut album. Blunt, 50, told an audience at Hay Literature Festival: ‘I just knew that the day before she died when she came back to my house and she'd been really mistreating her body and she'd just got the job again of being Princess Leia in the new Star Wars movies.
‘So she's really on a high and positive but they had applied a lot of pressure on her to be thin, which is what they do, so she spoke about the difficulties that women have in the industry that men are allowed to grow old and women are not. ‘She had to really put a lot of pressure on herself and started abusing drugs again. James Blunt has revealed Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by the Star Wars bosses to be thin at 60 years old that it drove her to abuse drugs again which ultimately led to her death.
Blunt, 50, told an audience at Hay Literature Festival: ‘.
