Carrie Fisher wins posthumous Grammy

Carrie Fisher has won a posthumous award at the Grammys for her memoir based on diaries she kept around the time she starred in the first Star Wars film.

Carrie Fisher has won a posthumous Grammy Award for best spoken word album for her memoir The Princess Diarist.

The 2016 memoir was inspired by diary entries that Fisher wrote while working on the first Star Wars film in 1977.

Released five weeks before her death on December 27, 2016, Fisher's fourth book revealed details from her past, including an on-set affair with co-star Harrison Ford.

This was Fisher's second Grammy nomination and first win, following her nod for spoken word for her 2008 book Wishful Drinking.

The actress died after she stopped breathing on a plane returning home to Los Angeles after finishing the European leg of her The Princess Diarist book tour.


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