That she is still alive, can only be attributed to being wealthy and her family’s celebrity. Indeed, just as we’re all surprised Mackenzie Phillips still has a beating pulse, we can say the same about Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher. As the daughter of screen legend Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher (who left daughter Carrie and wife Debbie to bed Elizabeth Taylor), the parallels of success coupled with battles with drink, drug and mental illness make for a juicy cocktail of tell-all stories.

The NY Post chatted up Carrie on her curious past detailed in her memoir Wishful Drinking, which is also the same title of her one-woman show debuting tonight in NYC at Studio 54. She opened up on how electroshock therapy cured her of her psychological woes, why she thinks Bill Murray is “scary” and how only until recently she realized that Princess Leia is a fetish:

On meeting Hollywood icons as a child of a star:

..when I was about 15, my friend and I ran into Groucho Marx. I said, “Hi, I’m Debbie Reynolds’ daughter,” and he said, “I went to visit your mother in the hospital one time to see if those were real.” He meant her breasts. This is what he says to a 15-year-old girl.

On realizing Princess Leia has become a fetish object:

I did not fully grasp that until somewhat recently. It’s a really bizarre abstraction. I went into this shop and this guy said, “Oh my God, you’re Carrie Fisher. I thought about you every day from 12 to 22.” And instead of saying, “What happened at 22?” I said, “Every day?” And he said, “Well — four times a day.”

On who was funniest of the freshman-year Saturday Night Live cast she befriended:

Probably Danny [Aykroyd], because I was engaged to him, and thought he was really, really funny. But John [Belushi] was hilarious. I thought Bill Murray was a teensy bit scary. Gilda [Radner] had a crush on [Fisher’s ex-husband] Paul [Simon] at one point, so our relationship was strained.

Via NY Post