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Actress Carrie Fisher suffered a "cardiac episode" on Friday during an airline flight from London to Los Angeles and was rushed to a hospital in critical condition after landing, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing emergency officials.
 
Fisher, 60, who has been on a tour promoting a new memoir, is best known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars movie series. No representatives for the performer were immediately available for comment, nor were city fire department officials.

The celebrity news website TMZ.com and other news outlets also reported that Fisher suffered a heart attack on the plane. 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/carrie-fisher-cardiac-episode-1.3911678

 

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"Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher was in critical condition Friday after suffering a “cardiac episode” during a flight from London to Los Angeles, according to airline and emergency officials.

Fisher, 60, was rushed to the hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics shortly after noon, after her 11-hour flight touched down at LAX.

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A source who was not authorized to discuss the incident said the actress was “in a lot of distress on the flight.”

A statement released by United Airlines said that medical personnel met Flight 935 from London on arrival after the crew reported a passenger was unresponsive. 

 

“Our thoughts are with our customer at this time,” the statement read.

Just prior to arrival, a pilot told the control tower that passengers who were nurses were attending to another “unresponsive” passenger.”

“So they’re working on her right now,” the pilot said in a public recording of the conversation on liveatc.net.

According to the LAX Police Department, officers responded to Terminal 7 around 12:15 p.m., for a call of a female passenger in cardiac arrest. On arrival, they found paramedics performing CPR on the victim, according to Officer Alicia Hernandez.

Fisher, who rose to stardom as Princess Leia, recently published an autobiography titled the “Princess Diarist,” her eighth book.

She is the daughter of famous Hollywood couple Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher

Fisher is considered Hollywood royalty who has written and spoken openly about her struggles in Hollywood. She took on her prickly relationship with her mother in the book-to-movie "Postcards From the Edge.” She’s also been outspoken about her mental health issues and the solution she found — radical-sounding electroshock therapy.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-carrie-fisher-cardiac-20161223-story.html

 

2016 just doesn't quit. Wishing her the best.

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Its a good thing there was a doctor and some nurse on the flight according to the tweets..she did stop breathing...

 

3rd UPDATE with statement on condition, 4:14 PM: Star Wars original Carrie Fisher suffered a heart attack on a plane en route to Los Angeles from London today. A source tells Deadline she was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and is on assisted breathing. Her brother, Todd Fisher, told the Associated Press this afternoon that she is in stable condition and “out of emergency.”

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3 hours ago, Apricot said:

DONT YOU DARE 2016. DONT YOU DARE TAKE CARRIE FISHER AWAY FROM US. 

 

3 hours ago, Toni Zamboni said:

damn, 2016 needs to get the ef over already!

get well soon, hope she has a full recovery.

help us Obi-Wan...

lol, spoiler alert: even more old celebrities are going to die in 2017 and 2018 and 2019.

 

as for Fisher, certainly sad, but decades of cocaine and alcohol abuse cannot be good for the heart, can it?

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6 minutes ago, GLASSJAW said:

lol, spoiler alert: even more old celebrities are going to die in 2017 and 2018 and 2019.

 

as for Fisher, certainly sad, but decades of cocaine and alcohol abuse cannot be good for the heart, can it?

 

2016 seems to have been a real b*tch in that regard though.  There was even a funny John Oliver/HBO skit about it.

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13 hours ago, GLASSJAW said:

 

lol, spoiler alert: even more old celebrities are going to die in 2017 and 2018 and 2019.

 

as for Fisher, certainly sad, but decades of cocaine and alcohol abuse cannot be good for the heart, can it?

 

Yeah. The American star culture proliferated in the 70's onwards. These guys are getting old now.

 

But still, the worst part of 2016 happened on Nov 8 and it wasn't a death.

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13 hours ago, GLASSJAW said:

 

lol, spoiler alert: even more old celebrities are going to die in 2017 and 2018 and 2019.

 

as for Fisher, certainly sad, but decades of cocaine and alcohol abuse cannot be good for the heart, can it?

FINALLY! Someone else who understands that 2016 is not a living entity. Take that saberfan1

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