Grant Helped Fisher With Acid Problem

29 November 2009

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Carrie Fisher's actress mother Debbie Reynolds called in celebrity pal Cary Grant to counsel the star about her drug addiction when she was a troubled teen.

The 53-year-old Star Wars actress has publicly disclosed her acid use and addiction to prescription medication in her new memoir Wishful Drinking, and Fisher admits she was stunned to receive a worried phone call from Grant, who she discovered once used Lsd under a doctor's supervision.

She explains, "My mother was worried I was doing too much Lsd... She did what any concerned mother would do - she had Cary Grant call me about my acid problem".

My mother was worried I was doing too much Lsd

Still baffled by Grant's experience, she laughs, "I just always want toimagine, was he in a backless gown? Was the doctor on acid? Did they do it in the office? How do you do acid with a doctor?"

Elsewhere Carrie Fisher is baffled by her ex-husband Paul Simon's songs about their failed marriage - insisting it's "trippy" to hear the rocker complain about what went wrong.

The Star Wars actress, who was married to the rocker for less than a year before they split in 1984, is referenced in a string of songs he recorded during their tumultuous union - including Hearts and Bones, Graceland, She Moves On and Allergies.

Decades later Fisher admits she still struggles to understand his bizarre musical interpretations of their union.

She says, "It is kind of trippy 15, 20 years down the line to turn on the radio and hear yourself complained about in song."

Reciting lyrics from Allergies, she laughs, "(He says), 'My heart is allergic to the women I love and it's changing the shape of my face...' Is that flattering?"

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