She didn’t need to be starstruck. Have you seen what Harrison Ford looked like back then? He could have bedded practically any 19-year old girl even if he’d been a dishwasher.
And BTW, since this is the Dope, it’s Procrustes not Procrustus.
And when famous people do that, social media lights up. Both of what we’re saying are true.
News? Pfffft. Right after the movie was released, that stuff was all over my Facebook feed, not to mention all the tweets that were going out.
You had a Facebook feed in 1977? A man ahead of your time! 
O’neil cylinder with two Dyson spheres?
As I understand it, Miss Fisher didn’t “clear” anything with Mr. Ford; she simply let him know about it being in the book.
In what universe is a 19-year-old not free to choose with whom he or she will have sex? So long as it’s consensual, who gives a furry little rat’s ass?
FWIW, my daughter’s mother was 21 when we met, and I was 39. We ended up in the sack on our first date, and I’d happily do the same thing today, 22 years later.
If this bothers anybody, that’s just TFB. It’s none of their goddamned business.
Carrie Fisher insists: I never said Harrison Ford was bad in bed
Fan those flames, Carrie! Fan them!
And a scruffy-looking nerf herder.
You know, now that I think about it, it’s really hard for me to picture her in roles (especially back then) that either weren’t Star Wars, or kind of jokingly anti-typecast like The Blues Brothers. I don’t mean to say that her doubts were justified, just that she was so iconic as Princess Leia that it might have been a hard shell to break out of. Checked her filmography on IMDb and there were plenty of other roles, but none that I’ve seen until after the Holy Trilogy.
Possibly so, it was definitely a different society back then. Rather worse was director George Roy Hill seducing actress Tippy Walker ( who he had hand-selected ) during the making of The World of Henry Orient. Good director, good film - but he was 44 and married and she was all of 16. Despite apparently a lot of rumors about it flying around at the time ( which Walker claims ultimately hurt her short career ), he came out unscathed.
I find it baffling that anyone would be unsure why any given straight male would want to sleep with Carrie Fisher. I find it similarly baffling that anyone would be unsure why any given straight female would want to sleep with Harrison Ford. The reasons for both, I would think, are quite obvious. And when you put two people who want to sleep with each other in close proximity, the results are predictable.
The only thing even remotely scandalous here is that Ford was married at the time. But by Hollywood standards of scandals, that hardly even rates notice.
Futhermore, who could bulls-eye that furry little rat’s ass back home in Beggar’s Canyon in his T-16?
A Hollywood actor cheating on his wife with a legally adult woman he’s working long hours with!?!?!? Say it ain’t so!
Not saying it’s a good thing, it’s scummy as fuck, but this ain’t even news, let alone “scandal”. (Without some corroboration or proof, it’s also just as likely some coke fueled fantasy as not.)