After An In Flight Cardiac Scare Carrie Fisher Is Stable
Carrie Fisher is in stable condition after a cardiac scare on a flight from London to Los Angeles, said her mother Debbie Reynolds.
“Carrie is in stable condition,” Reynolds tweeted. “If there is a change, we will share it. For all her fans & friends. I thank you for your prayers & good wishes.”
The Star Wars actress was on a United Airlines flight approaching Los Angeles on Friday when became ill. Fisher, 60, was transported off of the flight to a hospital from Los Angeles International Airport, said a source to CNN.
A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson told CNN “LAFD responded to LAX gate 74 for patient on inbound flight in cardiac arrest.”
“Paramedics standing by upon arrival provided advanced life support and aggressively treated and transported patient to local hospital.”
Other celebrities on the flight took to Twitter to express their shock and concern for the Princess Leia actress.
I’m in complete shock. @AnnaAkana and I sat in front of Carrie Fisher on our flight from London and she was just taken off the plane by EMTs
— Brad Gage (@bradgage) December 23, 2016
Don’t know how else to process this but Carrie Fisher stopped breathing on the flight home. Hope she’s gonna be OK 😞
— Anna Akana (@AnnaAkana) December 23, 2016
So many thanks to the United flight crew who jumped into action, and the awesome doctor and nurse passengers who helped
— Anna Akana (@AnnaAkana) December 23, 2016
Feel weird even tweeting about it but I JUST finished her book and was fangirling out over seeing her dog Gary in person. Gah.
— Anna Akana (@AnnaAkana) December 23, 2016
Fisher had been in London filming the latest season of Amazon’s “Catastrophe.”
Sharon Horgan & I pretending we like each other while filming Catastrophe in London…..Succeeding! pic.twitter.com/TFsuRJ5sRS
— Carrie Fisher (@carrieffisher) December 19, 2016
No other information about her condition as become available beyond being stable. News Talk Florida will continue to follow this story.
