Crooner Eddie Fisher, who sparked an international scandal in the 1950s when he left his wife Debbie Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor, has become mentally impaired, his daughter Carrie Fisher said on Monday.
The Star Wars icon said in Twitter messages that her 81-year-old father, who is confined to a wheelchair, was "kind of losing it," which was not a surprise since he "shot speed (for) 13 (years)."
Eddie Fisher thinks he is locked in a bakery and needs to attend a charity fundraiser that he has organized with president Barack Obama and a famous baseball player, his daughter said. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Eddie Fisher was a chart-topping teen idol in the early 1950s before rock 'n' roll and scandal ruined his career. He left his Reynolds, Carrie's mother and the first of his five wives, to marry family friend Taylor.
His 53-year-old daughter, who played the feisty rebel leader Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" movies, detailed her entangled family history as well as her own personal battles in her recent one-woman Broadway show "Wishful Drinking."
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