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Must-See TV: The brilliant Carrie Fisher’s “Wishful Drinking” premieres tonight on HBO!

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http://blogwaybaby.com/410-4N21WISHFUL.standalone.prod_affiliate.4.jpgCarrie Fisher has had one helluva life.

She’s got a movie star for a mom (Debbie Reynolds) and a famous singer for a dad (Eddie Fisher) and Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens among her stepmothers.

Among her ex-husbands is singer Paul Simon and her half-sister is actress Joely Fisher.

That’s just the family stuff.

Carrie herself became a huge movie star playing Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and went on to become an acclaimed novelist and screenwriter (Postcards From the Edge).

Through it all, she has battled drug addiction and mental illness and developed a brilliant sense of humor and openness about it all.

That’s why you have got to watch her new HBO special Wishful Drinking which premieres tonight. She is a 54-year-old poster child for the thrills and pitfalls of growing up in Hollywood.

When Carrie appeared last summer at the TV Critics Assn. Summer Press Tour, she talked about why she has been so candid about her life in this special based on her memoir of the same name:

“What I realized that when I got sober, overdosed, went to a mental hospital – all these things – it went in the paper. And my thing is: “Wait a second, if it’s going to be out there, please let my version be in it. ” Also, there is the saying, ‘You’re only as sick as your secrets. If you can claim it, it has very little power over you. I want to live on one side of the magnifying glass or the other – on the side that makes big things small or small things big. And I live on the side that makes big things small. You meet a better class of people there.”

“When the things happened at the time, I was too ashamed to talk about them so there’s great relief in just sort of being able to own this – something that happened, that I learned from and wasn’t defeated by. And if I can do that – and some of the stuff was really hard – then anybody can do it.”

Here is a LINK to the HBO site for more information and show times.

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