Yesterday, we learned the absolutely shocking (!) news that Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford had carried on a three-month affair during filming of Star Wars: A New Hope. While it had always been rumored that those first three film sets were dens of hedonism, drugs and sex, this was the first time Carrie had actually confirmed a long-standing rumor. She was 19 years old when she began carrying on with the 33-year-old Harrison, who was married at the time. So, the question now is… does Harrison mind that she’s talking about this? Probably not.

One might expect Harrison Ford to have had a few choice words for Carrie Fisher when she gave him a friendly heads-up about a book she was writing that would publicly reveal their 1976 affair. Instead, the dry-witted actor uttered just one.

“He went, ‘Lawyer!’ ” Fisher tells PEOPLE.

The actress-author, 60, took his reaction as playful, if resigned, and assured her Star Wars costar she’d send him an early copy and said she was open to any notes. Indeed, Fisher, who was just 19 at the time of their whirlwind romance during the original Star Wars shoot, sent Ford an early manuscript for The Princess Diarist, exclusively excerpted in this week’s issue of PEOPLE.

“I called him and said, ‘Where are you? I’m sending it to you,’ ” she recalls. “I don’t want to embarrass anyone and he’s very private. I said, ‘I know you’re not going to be excited but …’ ” No notes from Ford were forthcoming. (And he did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.) While Fisher has yet to receive Ford’s feedback, she isn’t second-guessing her decision to write about their days together.

“It was 40 years ago,” she explains, adding that the whole experience — making the original film and carrying on their secret romance — “was of a time.”

[From People]

I sort of agree about the 40 years ago thing. Obviously, if the adultery wounds were fresh and his kids were still little, it would be a different story. But it was 40 years ago! That’s long enough for people to call it a vintage sex scandal or a classic Hollywood affair. And I think Harrison’s silence speaks volumes – he’s not going to make a fuss about it and he obviously didn’t do anything to stop her from writing about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, and Carrie also pushed back on the claims that she called Harrison a bad lover. She told People: “Any reports claiming I said Harrison was bad in bed are utterly false. Perhaps people should read the book before they write their stories.” Thank God. My vintage lady-boner for Han Solo doesn’t have to deflate with the idea that he was a dud in the sack.

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