Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher: I'd Be Dead Now If My Drug of Choice was Legal

That's about the most honest statement to come out of a drug addicted person I've ever heard.

The Princess Leia character in the popular hit movie is currently touring Australia and opening up about her drug-induced past in even more candid ways. But Carrie Fisher isn't pointing the finger of blame at others. Another mature move.

Fox News reported that Carrie took full credit for her cocaine addiction, saying that, "It's always been my responsibility, if it was Hollywood then we'd all be dope addicts."

Most drug addicts have a long list of woes they blame for their addiction, but Fisher doesn't seem willing to follow that script. And that's inspite of the fact that her father Eddie Fisher humiliated her family and mother when he dumped her family in favor of hooking up with Elizabeth Taylor during her earlier years.

Carrie Fisher is able to separate her drug use actions from the actions of her parent's infidelity and subsequent abandonment of her, though.

But one especially sad part in Carrie's drug use admission reported by Fox News was this statement by the Star Wars actress: "I didn't even like the coke that much."

One of her close friends at the time did like cocaine, however, and he liked and used it so much it would eventually kill him.

John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd (Carrie's then-boyfriend) were all working together on "The Blues Brothers" after her Ice Planet snorting. So Carrie and Belushi were around each other a lot more. "Hanging out with them didn't help," Fox News reported the actress as saying, but she won't say it is Belushi's fault she kept doing cocaine.

Belushi would go on to overdose on the drug himself in 1982. But first he attempted to get Carrie to notice her own drug addiction to it. But Princess Leia refused, bringing her to death's door as well years later.

It is important that the Star Wars actress, who captured the hearts of millions, is taking the time to point out that if cocaine had been legal back then she would be dead now.

Making it legal would have given her even more access to a drug she couldn't resist. That's a powerful statement that goes against legalizing marijuana or any other drug in California.

Carrie Fisher acknowledged that all that stood between her and her drug of choice was legalization. And the celebrated star said if she had been addicted to the legal drug of alcohol it could have put her six feet under. Does California really want to possibly cause another addict to follow John Belushi down the road to death by legalizing a drug--of any kind?

Resource: FoxNews.com