Few behind-the-scenes Star Wars stories have lingered quite like the Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford affair. Part of that is obvious: it involves two of the most iconic faces in the franchise, and it stayed out of public view for decades. But the reason people still search terms like “Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford affair” or “did Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford have an affair” is not just gossip. It is because Fisher eventually told the story herself, in her 2016 memoir The Princess Diarist, using journals she kept during the making of the first Star Wars. The book was published by Blue Rider Press in November 2016 and is explicitly framed around her younger self’s diaries from that period. Yes, Carrie Fisher said the affair happened The short version is yes: Carrie Fisher said she and Harrison Ford had a three-month affair during the filming of the original Star…
