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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
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. Fisher died in 2016 with the autopsy revealing a cocktail of drugs including cocaine, meth, ecstasy, alcohol and opiates found in her system which caused a cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Fisher (pictured on the set of Star Wars in 1977) died in 2016 with the autopsy revealing a cocktail of drugs including cocaine, meth, ecstasy, alcohol and opiates found in her system which caused a cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles
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