Carrie Fisher sent cow tongue to sexual predator producer

If you didn’t think the Star Wars star could get any cooler, think again

Article by The Skinny | 17 Oct 2017
Carrie Fisher

We love the late actor, author and producer Carrie Fisher, but we love her even more after a story that emerged last night. Heather Ross, who was a close friend of Fisher’s, revealed that in 1999 she told Fisher that a high-profiled, Oscar-winning producer sexually assaulted her. Fisher’s response was to send the producer – who Ross has confirmed is not Weinstein – an appropriately unpleasant gift: a cow’s tongue.

Ross recalls how Fisher hand-delivered the gift-wrapped surprise: "It was a cow tongue from Jerry's Famous Deli with a note that said: 'If you ever touch my darling Heather or any woman again, the next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box'."

If Carrie Fisher had your back, it made life in Hollywood that bit easier, says Ross: “It felt validating to know, ‘Okay, first of all, this woman who I love as a friend was not just a fake Hollywood friend. That’s who she was. She spoke out and she put things out there in your face.”

If you weren’t aware already, Carrie Fisher rocked.