Carrie Fisher's final interview - a candid sit-down with UK talk show host Graham Norton, where she discussed her behind-the-scenes affair with co-star Harrison Ford while working on the original Star Wars movie in 1976 - took place just three weeks before the actress' untimely death, following a heart attack.
In the interview - which was recorded in London on December 9, where Fisher had been shooting the new season of her Amazon series Catastrophe - the star told Norton that she felt guilty over the media hoopla that the 40-year-old revelations had caused.
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The actress who played Princess Leia in Star Wars has died after suffering a heart attack during a flight from Los Angeles to London on Friday.
"400,000 news services picked it up... It became a little embarrassing for me," she told Norton about interest in the long-rumoured affair.
"They made a lot of things up which I now have to talk about," she said. "I never said he was bad in bed!"
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Fisher had been on the show promoting her new memoir, The Princess Diarist. The book, her fifth, saw the actress revisiting her journals from the late '70s – and intimately revealing the love affair she'd had at 19 with Ford, who was a 33-year-old married father of two at the time.
When asked how she'd kept the relationship a secret for 40 years, she said she had "no idea it would cause such a sensation".
"I became friends with his second wife, so we saw each other a lot," Fisher told Norton about her relationship with Ford following the brief on-set hook-up.
"I can literally remember three times that I made some oblique reference to [the affair], and he went 'Urghhh'," she joked, mocking Ford's trademark mumble.
The two reprised their roles in last year's The Force Awakens. Earlier this week, Ford issued a statement saying he was "shocked and saddened to hear the news about my dear friend", after Fisher had suffered a heart attack while on a flight from London to Los Angeles.
Norton today said that he was "numb" over the star's death, just weeks after their engaging chat.
"Unbelievable that such a bright, funny, loving spark could be extinguished," he wrote on Twitter.
Numb. Unbelievable that such a bright funny loving spark could be extinguished. @carrieffisher you will be missed. I wish you peace.
— graham norton (@grahnort) December 27, 2016