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Carrie Fisher thought this movie was sending her secret messages...


...so much it put her in the psych ward.

Let's see who takes the bait.

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really?

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It wasn't?

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It's called Ideas of Reference if you figure out it's not real. She had Delusions of Reference.

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/carrie-fisher-and-debbie-reynolds/12

At age 40, Carrie suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted to a psychiatric ward for one week. When she signed into the hospital, she didn't write her own name. "I wrote with my left hand," she says. "And I wrote the word 'Shame.'"

In the hospital, doctors took Carrie off all her medication to determine if she had an allergy to one of them. "I said to them, 'I won't sleep,'" Carrie says. "And they said, 'No one ever died from losing one night's sleep.'"

Carrie stayed awake for six days straight and began believing everything on television was about her. "I was getting secret messages from the movie The Young Lions," she says. "There were secret messages from the writers."

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Sad that she died prematurely, but she was nuts.

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