Carrie Fisher opens up about her manic bi- polar episode which lead to bizarre cruise ship performance. By. Jade Watkins. Published. 2. 1: 2. GMT, 1. 3 March 2. GMT, 1. 3 March 2.

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She was hospitalised for treatment for her bipolar disorder after a manic episode on a cruise ship last month. And as she continues to recover and adjust to new medication to help her mental illness, Carrie Fisher has opened up to People magazine about the incident.

Back in February, shock video footage emerged of Carrie onstage, pacing around, singing snippets of a song and stopping along the way to clean up after her dog who had urinated and soiled the stage.'I went off the rails': Carrie Fisher has spoken out about her manic bi- polar episode which lead to a bizarre cruise ship performance last month. The 5. 6- year- old Star Wars actress says that she does not recall what happened nor what she did that day aboard the Holland America Eurodam.'I went completely off the rails,' she says. I don't really remember what I did. I haven't watched the videos that people took.'Carrie, who has been battling bi- polar disease for many years, in addition to a well- documented struggle with drugs and alcohol, says she was in a 'severe manic state' at the time.

Shock footage: Back in February, shock video footage. Carrie onstage, pacing around, singing snippets of a song and. I was in a very severe manic state, which bordered on psychosis. Certainly delusional. I wasn't clear what was going on. I was just trying to survive,' she explains. There are different versions of a manic state, and normally they're not as extreme as this became.

I've only had this happen one other time, 1. I didn't have a plan of action.' Carrie describes having a conversation with a television all those years ago as she sat in a psychiatric ward in hospital. Severe: Carrie, who has been battling bi- polar. I was being talked to by the television, hallucinating. I wasn't inside the TV, this time, thank god,' she says. The actress, who has previously battle alcoholism, insists that she had not been drinking ahead of her cruise ship performance back in February. In fact, Carrie says she was even attending on site AA meetings at the time of the incident.

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I wasn't drunk. Anyone who knows me knows that's no possible. On the ship, I had gone to AA meetings a couple of times, and those guys were very sweet and grounding for me.

They actually came onstage and saved me,' she says. I was not drinking: The actress, who has previously battle. February. Carrie says that warning signs came early in the trip when she started scribbling on everything in sight. I wasn't sleeping. I was writing on everything.

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I was writing in books; I would have written on walls. I literally would bend over and be writing on the ground and (my assistant) would try to talk to me, and I would be unable to respond,' she recalls. She says that at the time of her manic episode she was on an anti psychotic medication called Seroquel, but it was clearly malfunctioning. That, in combination with her sleep cycles being 'off', caused the 'perfect storm of events', leading to the bizarre onstage appearance.

Badly behaved children': Carrie, pictured here as a baby in 1. Eddie Fisher and mother Debbie Reynolds, says she and her father did drugs together when she was older The following day after the onstage incident, Carrie deboarded the ship in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She immediately checked herself into the UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital for treatment.

The actress was there for five days before moving to a residential facility where she is currently residing. Now she says she is focused on getting used to her new medication.

Big role: Carrie starred in Star Wars as Princess Leia in 1. The only lesson for me, or for anybody, is that you have to get help. It's not a neat illness. It doesn't go away,' she says. The California native says she first realised she was bi- polar at around the age of '1.

Close: Carrie is still close to her mother Reynolds, pictured here in 2. Her father, famous actor Eddie Fischer, also suffered from the mental illness.

Carrie recalls the moment her father came home from a trip to Hong Kong with '1. We were like badly behaved children,' she recalls. Several years later Carrie went to. I went to the doctor and said: "I felt normal on acid" and he said that is consistent with what we know as a manic state.'Carrie has previously discussed her. ABC's. 2. 0/2. 0 and The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive with Stephen Fry for.

BBC.  British icon. Fry described his good friend Fisher as 'not mad enough to be. Watch The Amazing Wizard Of Paws Download here. She has also opened up on.

ECT) treatments, saying she receives ECT. Carrie also told chat show queen Oprah Winfrey: 'It makes me feel better, it is not like it was.  'They. Carrie. also spoke to Australian newswire AAP, saying: 'Slowly, I realised I. We did. cocaine on the set of Empire, in the ice planet [the second film of the. I didn't even like coke that much, it was just a case. I needed to take to get high.'  Despite. Carrie has continued to work in the.

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