New York Post

PRAY FOR ‘LEIA’

Carrie cardiac

- By LAURA ITALIANO

“Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher suffered a massive heart attack on a plane Friday and was put on a ventilator, reports said.

The 60-year-old star, who famously played Princess Leia in the sci-fi saga, was flying from London to Los Angeles to promote her new book when she went into cardiac arrest just 15 minutes before the flight was scheduled to land at noon LA time, according to TMZ.

A flight attendant asked if there were any medical personnel on board, and an EMT who happened to be sitting in the back ran up to first class to administer CPR.

When the plane landed, paramedics were waiting on the tarmac to rush Fisher to UCLA Medical Center.

The actress was unresponsi­ve at the time, and an EMS crew worked on her for 15 minutes before they got a pulse.

At one point, a source told NBC News, the situation was “not good.”

But her brother, Todd Fisher, told Variety on Friday night that “there’s no good news or bad news.”

“She’s in the ICU and everybody’s praying for her,” he added.

Fisher’s only child, daughter Billie Lourd, hurried to the hospital to be with her, according to TMZ.

Lourd, whose father is talent agent Bryan Lourd, was carrying Fisher’s French bulldog, Gary, who was on the plane with the actress when she was stricken, the Web site reported.

Co-star Mark Hamill tweeted, “As if 2016 couldn’t get any worse . . . sending all our love to @carrieffis­her.”

Fisher is most famous for her elaboratel­y coiffed role as Leia (inset), but she made headlines most recently for revealing she had an off-screen affair with co-star Harrison Ford.

The actress also is known for her 1987 semi-autobiogra­phical novel, “Postcards from the Edge,’’ which was made into a movie.

She had been traveling Friday to promote her latest book, “The Princess Diarist,” an autobiogra­phy in which the star revealed her affair with Ford.

Over the years, Fisher has been courageous­ly frank about her diagnosis of bipolar disorder and her addictions to cocaine and prescripti­on medication­s.

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