Todd Fisher had tried to put pen to paper. But the words never came. Until Dec. 27, 2016, when his sister Carrie, Star Wars’ Princess Leia, died. (The writer-actress, 60, fell unconscious four days earlier and never recovered.) He was hit with another crushing loss the next day when his mother, Debbie Reynolds, passed at 84. Now, “as the family archivist by default,” he writes in My Girls (out June 5), “I owe my girls a thorough, honest, unapologetic account of the life I’ve lived with them.” The memoir covers more than their ups and downs. Says Todd, 60, it’s “a love letter and thank-you note to the most pivotal, extraordinary women I’ve ever known.” He gets candid with Us.
Has writing given you closure?
I don’t think I’ll ever…