Battling Addiction To The End

A New Report Reveals The Beloved Star Died With Heroin And Cocaine In Her System. Her Daughter Hopes Her Life Will Inspire Others To Get Help

- Mia McNiece With Jess Cagle And Julie Jordan

Carrie Fisher was brutally honest about her demons. “I couldn’t stop,or stay stopped,” she told People in 1987 of her lifelong struggle with sub-stance abuse. “It was never my fantasy to have a drug problem. I’d say, ‘Oh, f--- it, I haven’t done anything for a couple of months, why not? Let’s celebrate not doing them by doing them.’ I got into trouble each time.” Sadly, she was never able to dispel that darkness. On June 19 the L.A. County Coroner’s Office revealed that cocaine, heroin and Ecstasy, among other drugs, were in Fisher’s system at the time of her Dec. 27 death.