Legendary actress Carrie Fisher spent her Christmas in the intensive care unit. The former "Star Wars" actress suffered from a major heart attack during her flight to Los Angeles.
Carrie Fisher was on her way to visit her family in Los Angeles over the holidays after she was hit with a heart attack. The actress suffered a heart attack during the flight and passengers rushed to help her by performing CPR. According to Variety, the legendary actress was on an 11-hour flight from London to Los Angeles, which led her to spend her Christmas in the Intensive Care Unit under her daughter's watch.
As of the recent updates in regards to the actress' health update, it was mentioned that main cause of her heart attack is not yet revealed. Fisher was revived aboard the plane by a fellow passenger who turned out to be a nurse. The 60-year-old actress reportedly stopped breathing for 10 minutes.
"United 935, I need the nature of your medical emergency, and also the sex of the patient and if there is medical personnel at the gate," the recording acquired from the airlines discussed the pilot's conversation with the control tower. "Yeah, we've coordinated medical personnel for the gate, we have some passengers, nurses, assisting the... unresponsive passenger,' the pilot replied. So they're working on her right now, we're going to have her seated in about two minutes and we should hopefully be on the deck in about five."
TMZ reports that the entire rescue procedure took place for about 15 minutes before the team were able to get a pulse and revived the actress. It was mentioned that Carrie Fisher came from a hectic week as she was busy promoting her memoir, The Princess Diarist."
Fans and fellow Hollywood stars sent out their love through twitter as they wished the "Star Wars" actress well. Even Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill also shared their sentiments in regards to Carrie Fisher's health condition.
