Carrie Fisher Confirms 40-Year-Old Rumours Of An Affair With Harrison Ford

Carrie Fisher has confirmed she did have a secret affair with Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars in 1976, confirming a 40-year-old rumour.

Speaking to People magazine, the actress opened up on the whirlwind three-month romance, which took place when she was 19 and Ford was a 33-year-old married father of two.

“It was so intense,” she told the magazine.

“It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend.”

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Fisher said she decided to come clean about the affair after coming across ‘angst-ridden’ journals she had kept from the time.

“It’s been 40 years,” she said.

According to People, Ford was given a heads-up about Fisher’s new book, The Princess Diarist, which will include entries about the affair and received a draft copy, but he didn’t respond to the magazine’s request for comment.

Fisher writes that she was wracked by self-doubt after spending her first night with Ford, following a birthday party for George Lucas.

“I looked over at Harrison. A hero’s face — a few strands of hair fell over his noble, slightly furrowed brow,” she writes.

“How could you ask such a shining specimen of a man to be satisfied with the likes of me?”.

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However she now looks back on the romance fondly.

“I was so inexperienced, but I trusted something about him,” she said. “He was kind.”