Todd Fisher on Carrie’s Legacy

Via Gma.com:

No one’s ever really gone. Two years after Carrie Fisher died — followed the next day by her mother Debbie Reynolds — her brother says fans can expect more future surprises from the iconic “Star Wars” princess-turned-general, writer and comedian.

“We have a lot of her artifacts, and a lot of things of hers that she’s written that will someday be shared. There’s a lot more to come from Carrie,” Todd Fisher told ABC News.

Todd Fisher says the sadness of losing his sister and mother so close together has been tempered by the flood of goodwill from their millions of fans worldwide.

“I do miss them both tremendously. At the same time, I have so much left behind by them both, and so many great memories,” he said.

For Todd Fisher, those memories are conjured up by memorabilia like the costume his then-12-year-old sister wore the very first time they performed with their mother in Las Vegas. Fisher says he keeps the outfit — a salmon-colored, 60s-style, polka-dotted number featuring fringed bellbottom pants — in his entry hall at home.

“My mom saved it. When I see it I always get a laugh and remember us standing backstage waiting to go onstage for the first time ever, and I remember her just completely panicking,” Fisher recalled. “And then of course, when the lights hit her and the audience applauded, she just fell right into it. And of course the rest is history.”

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