Carrie Fisher now has a perfect advice column, 'Advice from the Dark Side'
Help us, Leia — you're our only hope!
Carrie Fisher has become our irreverent Fairy Godmother of sorts, teaching us how to shut down Internet trolls and giving us a perfect model of a celebrity relationship. (We're talking about Gary, obviously.)
And with a new advice column in the Guardian, wonderfully titled "Advice from the Dark Side,' Fisher is officializing her role as our generation's spirit guide. In her introductory column published Friday morning, Fisher calls on young people to send her their stories.
"Let the questions come from the younger members of our congested world," she writes. "No, really. I can’t help you with your homework; but I can tell you what I did if I’ve had an experience like yours. Throw it at my wall and see what sticks. What you do with that info is up to you."
Anyone familiar with Fisher's 2009 memoir Wishful Drinking knows the actress is just as witty in writing as she is in person, and her first "Dark Side" installment is a joy to read.
"Hilariously – after all the drug addiction and celebration marriage and mental illness and divorce and shock treatment and heartbreak and motherhood and childhood and neighborhood and hood in general – I’ve turned out to be (at close to 70) a kind of happy person (go figure!)," she writes.
Have pressing issues you want Fisher to tackle — like how to pull off a gold bikini, or finding out you made out with your brother, or what to say when you finally tell your boyfriend you love him, and he says, "I know?"
Send all your (non-Star Wars-related) queries along to carrie.fisher.advice@theguardian.com, and read Fisher's full introductory column here.