Carrie Fisher just beat out Bernie Sanders, Mark Ruffalo, Bruce Springsteen, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Shelly Peiken to win a post-humous Grammy and no YOU’RE blubbing at your desk on a Monday morning.
The late space princess won Best Spoken Word Album for her recording of her final memoir The Princess Diarist, which revisited her time spent filming the first ever Star Wars film and her affair with co-star Harrison Ford.
Congrats Best Spoken Word Album – ‘The Princess Diarist’ #CarrieFisher #GRAMMYs
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) January 28, 2018
The Best Spoken Word Album is one of many awards the Recording Academy gives out before the actual ceremony commences, which manages to confuse this writer every damn year.
Past winners include former presidents Barack Obama (twice), Jimmy Carter (also twice) and Bill Clinton; actors Michael J. Fox, Betty White and Christopher Reeve; comedians Stephen Colbert and Joan Rivers; poet Maya Angelou no less than three times; and in 1971, Martin Luther King, Jr. for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam.
For someone so hugely influential, this award marks only the second time in her career that Fisher has won something she’s been nominated for (the other being the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror‘s Saturn Award in 1990). Quite frankly, rude. She was nominated for a Grammy in the same category in 2014, for Carrie and Me, but lost out to Colbert. Again, RUDE.
But at least now our queen has now won the Grammy – from her casket – and you can go back to pissing tears.
CARRIE FISHER JUST WON A GRAMMY FOR HER RECORDING OF HER BOOK PRINCESS DIARIST! #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/0ZJj5ZSjUF
— Jacklyn Krol (@JacklynKrol) January 28, 2018
Carrie Fisher just won a #Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album. As it should be. Continuing to conquer. #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/8fHvCicGME
— Emma Badame (@EmmaTheDame) January 28, 2018
CARRIE FISHER WON HER GRAMMY I AM SO FUCKING HAPPY.
— holly (@mywasteddream) January 28, 2018
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Honestly, waiting for Mark Hamil to tweet over here. That’ll set the floodworks off again.
UPDATE: FINALLY.
CONGRATULATIONS to my #GRAMMY-winning #SpaceSis!!! #AlwaysWithUs #AlwaysAWinner #CarrieOnFOREVER https://t.co/O6kpr8CL3R
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) January 28, 2018