Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Carrie Fisher, who will forever be known for playing Princess Leia Organa in the original Star Wars trilogy, and General Leia Organa in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has been rushed to an Los Angeles hospital after apparently suffering a heart attack on a flight.
A law enforcement official tells ABC News that Fisher was taken off a United flight on Friday. The L.A. Fire Department tells ABC News that it responded to a call for a patient on an inbound flight in cardiac arrest. The LAFD paramedics were standing by and “aggressively treated and transported the patient to a local hospital.”
Fisher has been on a book tour promoting her latest memoir, The Princess Diarist, which revealed that she and her married co-star Harrison Ford, had an intense affair during the filming of the original Star Wars in 1977.
Fisher, an actress and author who has been open about her struggles with substance abuse and bipolar disorder, has also appeared in movies like Hannah and Her Sisters, When Harry Met Sally and The Blues Brothers. She has a daughter, actress Billie Lourd, with talent agent Bryan Lourd.
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