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Remembering Carrie Fisher: We Miss You, Space Mom

Losing Carrie Fisher means constantly remembering her legacy, even two years later.

Carrie Fisher as Leia in Star Wars: The Last Jedi poster

It was a shock, in 2016, when the news broke that Carrie Fisher had died. Having just finished filming Catastrophe in London, she suffered a heart attack on the plane back to Los Angeles and died a few days later. With her death came the knowledge of what she meant to all of us.

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For me personally, I had just met her a few months before, at New York Comic Con. I went in to meet her, and the only picture I wanted to take was the two of us flipping off the camera. Watching as the entire room lit up when I asked just showed the kind of power she had. She didn’t care what people thought about her as long as she was true to herself.

That legacy lives on in her fans, showing us all that we can be true to ourselves and honest about the state of our mental health, as well as everything else going on in our lives, because it’s what we need to do for ourselves. So, it isn’t surprising that fans and friends of Carrie’s are sharing stories today to honor her.

The official Star Wars Twitter account took the time to remember their general today.

One of the important things about Fisher is that she was very open about her mental health.

For so many of us, she gave us a sense of self, putting herself out there so that we could have the bravery to do the same.

She was our General Leia, or the woman who ghost wrote countless movies that we all love and cherish. She was a force to be reckoned with and one that we miss with every passing day.

The most heartbreaking tribute of all is from Carrie’s daughter, Billie Lourd, sharing a song for her mother.

 

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️®️ ♏️️♏️️It has been two years since my Momby’s death and I still don’t know what the “right” thing to do on a death anniversary is (I’m sure a lot of you feel the same way about your loved ones). So I decided to do something a little vulnerable for me, but something we both loved to do together – sing. This is the piano her father gave her and this was one of her favorite songs. And as the song says, we must “keep on moving”. I’ve found that what keeps me moving is doing things that make me happy, working hard on the things that I’m passionate about and surrounding myself with people I love and making them smile. I hope this encourages anyone feeling a little low or lost to “keep on moving”. As my Momby once said, “take your broken heart and turn it into art” – whatever that art may be for you. ❤️

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Miss you, Space Mom!

(image: Disney/Lucasfilm)

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Rachel Leishman (She/Her) is an Assistant Editor at the Mary Sue. She's been a writer professionally since 2016 but was always obsessed with movies and television and writing about them growing up. A lover of Spider-Man and Wanda Maximoff's biggest defender, she has interests in all things nerdy and a cat named Benjamin Wyatt the cat. If you want to talk classic rock music or all things Harrison Ford, she's your girl but her interests span far and wide. Yes, she knows she looks like Florence Pugh.

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