Daily Times

Harrison Ford was tight-lipped when asked about his reaction to late ‘Star Wars’ co-star Carrie Fisher’s revealing memoir during a recent interview, but the actor did manage to share one brief thought on the matter.

“It was strange. For me,” he said in GQ’s new cover story. In 2016, Carrie Fisher dropped a bombshell on fans of the franchise when she revealed in her memoir The Princess Diarist, that she and Harrison Ford had an affair while on the set of the film that started the franchise,1977’s ‘Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope’. At the time, Fisher was 19 and Ford was 33 – and married to his first wife, Mary Marquardt, with whom he had two children. The steadfastly private actor admitted that he was given advance warning that Fisher planned to write about their affair, but declined to go into detail about his reaction.

“Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know,” he said. “You know, with Carrie’s untimely passing, I don’t really feel that it’s a subject that I want to discuss.”

When asked whether he’s read Fisher’s nearly 300-page memoir, Ford responded shortly, “No. I didn’t.”

Ford remained silent throughout Fisher’s promotional tours and interviews for the book, though he was often asked for comment. In a chat with NPR’s Fresh Air host Terry Gross in late November of that year, Fisher expressed surprise that readers made such a big deal out of the three-month affair. “I said, ‘I found the journals that I kept during the first movie, and I’m probably going to publish them’,” she said of the conversation she had with Harrison prior to moving forward with that chapter of the memoir.

Published in Daily Times, September 21^st 2017.