[FONT="]Elizabeth Taylor was at one time Carrie Fisher’s step-mother.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Carrie Fisher, who’s best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars, is the daughter of famed entertainers Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. At the height of Eddie Fisher’s fame as a singer and eventual TV show host in the 1950s, he married actress Debbie Reynolds, with the two staying married for four years, from 1955-1959. Carrie Fisher was born just a year after the two were wed in 1956.[/FONT]
[FONT="]When Eddie Fisher divorced Reynolds in 1959, he quickly married one of Reynolds’ best friends, Elizabeth Taylor who was also the widow of his former best friend, producer Mike Todd, who had died in 1958. After Todd’s death, Fisher and Taylor became close and began having an affair that ultimate resulted in him divorcing Reynolds. The marriage with Fisher was surprisingly Elizabeth Taylor’s fourth marriage, even though she was at the time only 27 years old. The two stayed married for five years and divorced in 1964 when Carrie Fisher was 9 years of age.
Who knew? [/FONT]