Carrie Fisher was reportedly ‘pressured’ to be thin by bosses. Singer James Blunt, who is known for his classic song You’re Beautiful, was friends with the Princess Leia actress and has spoken out about her drug abuse, which he claims was sparked by “pressure” and led to her untimely death. Blunt and Fisher were so close that he moved into her Los Angeles house back in the noughties when he was recording his first album.

While talking to fans at Hay Literary Festival, Blunt claimed: “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.

” Blunt continued on to allege that the Princess Leia actress destroyed herself by consuming so many: “By the time she got on the plane she had practically killed herself. They said it was a heart failure but she had taken enough drugs to have a great party.” Fisher sadly died back in 2016 aged just 60-years-old.

At the time, an autopsy revealed that she suffered a cardiac arrest while on a plane from London to LA. Cocaine, ecstasy, alcohol and opiates.