Only 19 when she was chosen to portray Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher achieved instant stardom—and plunged into a life of desperate excess. With self-deprecating humor and hard-earned wisdom, Fisher looks back here on those early days on the set of Star Wars—"It wasn't all sweetness and lightsabers"—and in this "witty, ramshackle, and outrageous" memoir (Washington Post), she is refreshingly frank as she comments on her battle with drug addiction, the pleasures of shock therapy, the two-edged sword of Hollywood success, and the blink-and-you'll-miss-it phase of her life when Elizabeth Taylor was her stepmother.