I was listening to Carrie Fisher on NPR last week, and found out she's been bipolar since her teens. She was a drug addict for years, and said opiates saved her life. She's undergone electroshock and lost a few months of her memory. She said she never wanted to be an actress, just a writer. She once woke up with a dead guy. Accidental OD on his part.
I was very surprised. Not just marijuana and booze, but opiates, LSD...all of it. She said anti-depressants didn't work on her, so they used electroshock, which she said turned her life around, even though she lost a few month's worth of her memory.
She really did wake up in bed with a dead guy, who died overnight from an O.D.
I always wanted to remember her as Princess Leia, but it'll be hard now.