Is Carrie Fisher flirting with the dark side again?
During a weeklong investigation, The Post witnessed Fisher — who rocketed to global stardom as Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” franchise and is set to reprise her role in the seventh installment of the space saga next year — repeatedly visit a downtrodden Hollywood apartment, meet with someone in her car and then behave bizarrely as she made a beeline back home.
The Post observed a messy-mopped Fisher, 57, hardly looking regal in a giant black trench coat, waiting in her car while one of two women rushed down from the apartment to hop in the passenger seat for no more than 30 seconds at a time.
The pal then got out and returned to the apartment — and the actress drove straight home.
In one instance, Fisher was seen sitting in a car as a pal appears to hide something concealed in a folded piece of cardboard.
On two occasions, Fisher — who would show up in either a green Mini or black BMW — took one of the women for a quick spin around the block before dropping her back and heading home.
A reporter observed Fisher acting erratically — either violently bobbing her head up and down, clenching her fists or frantically wiping her nose in the rearview mirror.
When confronted on the seventh straight day she turned up at the apartment, Fisher, who has struggled with addiction, shrugged off her strange behavior and claimed she was clean and sober.
“No, darling,” she said when asked whether she was buying drugs.
When quizzed about the daily meetings at the apartment, she said it was a friend’s place.
“I’ve been coming here for years,” she said.
Fisher has long chronicled her battle with drugs and recovery, including in her 1987 best-selling novel, “Postcards from the Edge,” and in her 2008 autobiography, “Wishful Drinking.”
In her autobiography, Fisher wrote how she was first offered marijuana at age 13 by her movie-star mom, Debbie Reynolds, after someone left the ganja in their Palm Springs holiday home. Although she didn’t end up trying it with her mother, she told how she ended up taking it from her mother’s drawer and “experimenting my brains out in my tree house.”
In 2011, she told Oprah Winfrey that she receives electroconvulsive-therapy treatments to “blow apart the cement” in her brain. She said she treats her manic depression with a cocktail of prescribed drugs and shock therapy every six weeks.
Last February, she was hospitalized after a bizarre performance on a cruise ship, where she staggered around while performing a few songs alongside her dog.
Despite her problems, Fisher has continued to work, notably voicing Angela in “Family Guy” and gearing up for “Star Wars Episode VII,” slated to start filming in the spring.
“I’m glad they are doing a new movie because they are sending a trainer to my house so I can get in really good shape,” she told the Calgary Herald.
Representatives for Fisher did not return messages by press time.