LOS ANGELES: Carrie Fisher, who rose to fame as Princess Leia in the `Star Wars` films and later endured drug addiction and stormy romances with show business heavyweights, died on Tuesday aged 60, her daughter said through a family spokesman.

`It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away this morning,` Lourd said in a statement issued by Simon Halls. `She was loved by the world, and she will be missed profoundly.` Fisher`s friend and former Star Wars co-star Mark Hamill said in a tweet: `No words.

#Devastated` Fisher, the daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, who died in 2010, had been in England shooting the third season of the British sitcom `Catastrophe`. She suffered a heart attack during a flight on Friday from London to Los Angeles. She was met by paramedics and rushed to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Her death came a month after the actress made headlines by disclosing that shehad a three-month love affair with her `Star Wars` co-star Harrison Ford 40 years ago.

Fisher revealed the secret to People magazine while promoting her new memoir, `The Princess Diarist`. The book is based on Fisher`s diaries from her time working on the first `Star Wars` movie.

Fisher said the affair started and ended in 1976 during production on the blockbuster sci-fi adventure in which she first appeared as the intrepid Princess Leia.-Reuters