James Blunt had a “beautiful” best friendship with Carrie Fisher.
In an interview with Guardthe “Goodbye My Lover” musician, 49, opened up about how he died Star Wars the actress became his “best, best friend”.
Blunt told the publication that the “wild rollercoaster” of their friendship began when he was dating a woman whose parents were family friends of the Fishers and was invited to lunch in Notting Hill where he sat next to her.
“I had just gotten a record deal and was moving to LA. Carrie’s first question was, ‘What do you do?’ I said, ‘I left the army to go record an album in LA.’ Question number two was: ‘Where are you going to live?’ I said I didn’t know. Her response—the third thing she ever said to me—was, ‘Well, you’re going to live with me.’ So that’s exactly what I did,” he told the newspaper.
James Blunt reflects on friendship with late Carrie Fisher: ‘I was very lucky to know her’
During the first month he lived there, the British singer-songwriter did not see much of Fisher, but her mother, the late Debbie Reynolds, would call him “Charlie” and offer him drinks.
“A month later, I started seeing Carrie more. One night I came home and sat on the end of her bed and we talked until morning. After that, whenever I got home from the studio, I’d go to her room to talk, whether it was whether it’s 11pm or 3am, she’s become my best, best friend,” he explained.
On his upcoming album Who we wereBlunt said he paid tribute to Fisher with a song called “Dark Thought,” which describes “the moment I went back to her house after she died.”
“I put my hand on her door and started crying. Moments later, one of the Star Map open-top vans that take tourists around LA appeared. Over the PA, the guide said, ‘On your left you’ll find the late, great house of Carrie Fisher. … As you can see, some fans are still deeply affected by her death.’ That was me. I was going to tell them to screw up, but it ended up being funny,” he recalled.
James Blunt in London in November 2021.
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In 2019, the “You’re Beautiful” singer reflected on his friendship with Fisher in an interview with PEOPLE Now.
“I mean, the world is a sadder place, honestly, without her,” he said, adding, “whenever I was in America, in LA, that was my home. My child’s godmother. She helped me call ‘Back to Bedlam’ because her house was a madhouse. I recorded ‘Goodbye My Lover’ in her bathroom. And she was [an] an amazing, inspiring, creative human being who saw the funny side of everything – he was more fragile than I think people knew. But I was very lucky to know her.”
Blunt’s seventh studio album Who we were is October 27.
Along with the upcoming record, he will also publish his memoirs Loosely based on fictional story on Thursday, October 26 via Constable, an imprint of Little Brown.
He will also be the subject of a documentary A British wonderwhich is expected later this year.
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