During last nighttime ’s Grammy award ceremony , the late Carrie Fisher come through a much - deserved Grammy for the audiobook transcription of The Princess Diarist , her memoirs found on the diaries she kept while film the first Star Wars . Fisher beat Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Bruce Springsteen , and Shelly Peiken , who were also nominated in the Best Spoken Word Album category .
Though The Princess Diarist was n’t at all the shameful Star Wars behind - the - scenes peek that many people wanted , it was an intimate look into Fisher ’s interiority while she originated one of the most iconic roles in film history . Fisher ’s reading of the book that at long last won her the Grammy is at times sedate and at others almost wash up in its joyful exuberance . In it , she dug into the ambivalency she had about portray Princess Leia and the relationship that finally modernise between her and Harrison Ford during the first movie .
As the tribute video to Fisher played during her Grammy win , it was decipherable just how much of a missed presence the actress was , a sentiment her girl Billie Lourd echoed in a timely Instagram post :
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Fisher was an incredible talent and we ’re glad she received this posthumous honor .
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