I ask everyone to stop for a moment and send special thoughts to @carrieffisher.
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) December 23, 2016
TMZ has the awful news:
#BREAKING Carrie Fisher Suffers Massive Heart Attack on Plane https://t.co/Daq2vJsCkH
— TMZ (@TMZ) December 23, 2016
Her condition is unknown but TMZ reports that she was taken to a local hospital.
Actress Anna Akana was reportedly on the same flight and says that Fisher “stopped breathing” before she was attending to by passengers and the flight crew:
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
We’ll update this post as soon as we learn more.
Update 1. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that she’s in “critical condition”:
Actress Carrie Fisher is in critical condition after a cardiac episode on London to L.A. flight https://t.co/5XOdJPuLGN
— L.A. Times: L.A. Now (@LANow) December 23, 2016
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