Rest in peace Carrie Fisher, dead at 60, drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra

Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, at Fisher’s home in Beverly Hills, California on November 27, 2010. Reynolds, the wholesome movie ingénue in 1950s films like “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Tammy and the Bachelor” and “The Tender Trap” and one-third of mid-20th-century Hollywood’s most scandalous romantic triangle, died Wednesday, a day after the death of her daughter, the actress Carrie Fisher, according to The Associated Press. She was 84. (Kevin Scanton/NYT File Photo)

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Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, at Fisher’s home in Beverly Hills, California on November 27, 2010. Reynolds, the wholesome movie ingénue in 1950s films like “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Tammy and the Bachelor” and “The Tender Trap” and one-third of mid-20th-century Hollywood’s most scandalous romantic triangle, died Wednesday, a day after the death of her daughter, the actress Carrie Fisher, according to The Associated Press. She was 84. (Kevin Scanton/NYT File Photo)

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Actress Debbie Reynolds (C) and son, filmmaker Todd Fisher, and daughter, screenwriter Carrie Fisher, arrive at a luncheon hosted by the American Film Institute on September 17, 1998. (REUTERS File Photo)

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Actress Debbie Reynolds poses with her daughter actress Carrie Fisher backstage after accepting her Lifetime Achievement award at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California on January 25, 2015. (Mike Blake/Reuters File Photo)

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In this May 7, 1951, file photo, actress Debbie Reynolds signs autographs on her way into the ice show in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP File Photo)

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In this May 22, 1955, file photo, actress Debbie Reynolds entertains at 8th Army headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. (AP File Photo)

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In this April 19, 1955, file photo, singer Eddie Fisher and his fiancee, actress Debbie Reynolds, look at each other at Idlewild Airport in New York. (AP File Photo)

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In this January 2, 1957 file photo, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds hold their baby daughter, Carrie Frances Fisher, as the pose for a photo in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. (AP File Photo)

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In this March 6, 1959, file photo actress Debbie Reynolds boards an airliner in New York en route to Spain where she will film a new picture. (John Rooney/AP File Photo)

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In this February 27, 1959, file photo, working long hours on the set of "Say One For Me," so she can fly to Spain and start another movie, actress Debbie Reynolds is visited at the studio by her children, Carrie, 2, and 1-year-old Todd. (AP File Photo)

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A young Carrie Fisher watches her mother Debbie Reynolds on stage. (Twitter)

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In this November 15, 1965, file photo, Debbie Reynolds, dressed as nun for her role as a singing nun in the MGM picture of that name, practices her next scene while she watches a scene being filmed. (AP FILE PHOTO)

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This May 2, 1973 file photo shows Carrie Fisher, the 16-year-old daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, in New York. (Jerry Mosey/AP File Photo)

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Debbie Reynolds performs at Cafe Carlyle in New York on June 3, 2009. (Rob Bennett/NYT File photo)

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Carrie Fisher on stage in her autobiographical show “Wishful Drinking,” at Studio 54 in New York, Sept. 24, 2009. Pictured from left: her parents Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Mike Todd and Elizabeth Taylor. Carrie Fisher, who used her perch among Hollywood royalty to offer wry commentary on the absurdities of fame, died on Dec. 27, 2016. She was 60. (Sara Krulwich/NYT File Photo)

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Actress Carrie Fisher introduces her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, as the recipient of the Life Achievement Award at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters File Photo)

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In this September 10, 2011, file photo, Debbie Reynolds, left, and Carrie Fisher arrive at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Reynolds, star of the 1952 classic "Singin' in the Rain" died Wednesday, December 28, 2016, according to her son Todd Fisher. (Chris Pizzello/AP File Photo)