Not that divorcing in just a year kept them from dating on and off again for years after.
A new documentary about Simon, 82, In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, archival interviews offer some retrospective brutal takes on the one-year marriage between Simon and late Star Wars actor Carrie Fisher. The two first met when Fisher, in her full Princess Leia splendor and fame, hosted SNL in 1978. They married in 1983. By July 1984, they were divorced. In one clip, Simon characterizes the union as, “All types of mistakes on top of mistakes on top of mistakes.
“I mean, what was I thinking?” he said in one interview. “Marriage is very… it’s a hard thing to do. You have to concentrate on…not everything can happen at once, not everything is a media event.” “I realized I could become exhausted by—I could exhaust myself from emotional upheaval,” he said. Not that Fisher, who died in 2016, minced words herself when discussing the brief union in her memoir Wishful Drinking. Asked if the marriage was “the wrong thing to do,” she answered, “Yes.
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