Carrie Fisher's New Book to Cover Shock Treatments

Carrie Fisher will release a new book, will be entitled "Shockaholic" and will describe her experiences with receiving shock treatments.

An actress, screenwriter and bestselling author ("Postcards from the Edge," "The Best Awful" and "Wishful Drinking"), Carrie Fisher is the daughter of the late singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds, known as "America's Sweethearts" in the late '50s. She became a cultural icon at age 19 after starring as Princess Leia in the first "Star Wars" trilogy in the 1970s. 

Wishful Drinking, which aired as a documentary on HBO beginning Dec. 12, played a limited run at Studio 54 from September 2009 to January 2010. It touches upon Fisher's relationship with her family, including her father who passed away in September. 

"I've always had a good relationship with him, but not a familial kind of relationship in a way. It was when I stopped expecting him to act like a regular Dad and I took care of him. So you have to figure out what relationship to have with who. That was the way to be with my Dad. Dad was a very childlike man. So I took care of him. And I loved how he loved me. He was very dear at the end. I liked being needed by him. I do miss my father. He was excited about this and he would have liked to see this." Fisher tells Showbiz 411 of the HBO airing.

Fisher is also a screenwriter and bestselling author. Her novels, "Postcards from the Edge," "Surrender the Pink," "Delusions of Grandma" and "The Best Awful," were all critically acclaimed, with "Postcards from the Edge" being adapted for an Oscar(R)-nominated film of the same name starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. Her memoir "Wishful Drinking," taken from the stage show, was published in 2008 by Simon & Schuster, which will also publish Fisher's novel "Shockaholic" in 2011.

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