Tragic Details About Eddie Fisher

By 1973, Eddie Fisher said that he knew he was dangerously addicted to methamphetamine, and in his memoir, “Been There, Done That,” he wrote that he had made the decision to get clean. It didn’t go as he intended, though, and he said that he was in San Juan when he ran out of his drug of choice. That’s also when an unnamed Puerto Rican senator injected him with liquid cocaine for the first time, and he wrote, “Suddenly I was flying like I had never flown before. Within seconds I was off speed and I had a brand-new bad habit.”

Fisher wrote that he had an incredibly hard time admitting how dependent on drugs he was, and went on to talk about just how much he was buying. Over the course of just a few months, he said that he was buying 10,000 Seconal (barbiturates), and cocaine to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars’ worth. When he finally decided that he was going to quit cold turkey, Fisher dumped about $25,000 worth of the drug, and promptly ended up in the hospital with no idea how he got there.

Fisher ended up going to Zurich’s Bircher-Benner Clinic, and wrote that while the treatment worked and he walked out clean, it came with a shocking realization. He returned to LA, and later wrote, “I had no one to help me. Almost everyone on whom I had once depended was gone.”