The Side Of Carrie Fisher You Won't Hear About In Mainstream

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—One can't open a newspaper or news site, or listen to TV news this week without seeing/hearing at least a half-dozen stories having to do with the death of Carrie "Princess Leia" Fisher (or if you're a bit hipper, Carrie "Postcards From The Edge" Fisher)—and the vast majority of them, while mentioning the actress's bouts with bipolar disorder and her use of percodan, cocaine and electroshock therapy to "treat" it, have managed to avoid saying anything about her sexuality. Enter Penn Jillette, famed magician/comedian, star of the Showtime show Penn & Teller's Bullshit and star of the hopefully-soon-to-be-released film Director's Cut. Penn's a longtime porn fan—he covered the topic at least a couple of times on Bullshit—who's attended both the Adult Entertainment Expo and AVN Awards Show in years past, and on Wednesday, he penned (no pun intended) an article for CNN titled, "Carrie Fisher and me at the porn awards." According to Jillette, he first met Fisher at the "Adult Video Awards"—actually the XRCO Awards—in 1990 "in Santa Monica in a circus tent." Jillette was "crazy freedom fighter and pornographer" Al Goldstein's "date," and the pair sat at a table with comedy writer Buck Henry and his date, Carrie Fisher. "I didn't know what to say to Carrie to get a conversation started," Jillette wrote, "but before I even sat down, Nina Hartley came over to say hi. Nina is a porn actor friend of mine, and she had just gotten new breast implants and she wanted to show them off to me. Nina wanted to show them off to everyone and I was so happy to be a subset of her everyone. Nina asked me how her new breasts looked and I told her, honestly, that they looked great. Nina then invited me to give them a feel... I reached up under Nina's shirt, checked out the surgery, and praised Nina's after-market rack. Before Nina even left our table, Carrie said the first words she would ever say to me. 'Penn, would you like to feel my breasts? I've been in legitimate features.'"