STAR Wars actress Carrie Fisher suffered a massive heart attack and stopped breathing for 10 minutes during a flight last night.

The 60-year-old was on a flight from London to LAX when she fell ill.

6 Carrie Fisher has been hospitalised following a ‘massive heart attack’ Credit: Greg Brennan

She is now “out of emergency” according to her brother, Todd Fisher, and is at the UCLA Medical Center.

Her daughter Billie Lourd is also at the star's bedside, along with Carrie's beloved French Bulldog Gary.

Dramatic audio from the plane was released shortly after Carrie was hospitalised - with the pilot telling air traffic control passengers were “assisting” Carrie.

He said: “They are working on her right now and we are going to have her seated in about two minutes.”

The United Airlines flight touched down at noon and paramedics rushed on board.

A spokesperson for the airline said: “Medical personnel met United flight 935 from London to Los Angeles upon arrival today after the crew reported that a passenger was unresponsive.

“Our thoughts are with our customer at this time and any requests for additional information should be directed to local authorities.”

6 Carrie had been in London during her book tour Credit: PA:Press Association

Shortly after the news broke a police spokesperson is claimed to have told NBC that Carrie is “not in a good way.”

Actress Anna Akana was on the same flight and later described the traumatic scenes on Twitter.

She wrote: “Don't know how else to process this but Carrie Fisher stopped breathing on the flight home.

“Hope she's gonna be OK.

“So many thanks to the United flight crew who jumped into action, and the awesome doctor and nurse passengers who helped.”

According to reports in the US, Carrie fell ill 15 minutes before the plane was due to land.

Luckily a member of the emergency services was on board and administered CPR.

6 She's currently on tour with her book The Princess Diarist Credit: Alamy

Before she fell ill, Carrie had been on tour promoting her book The Princess Diarist, an intimate recollection of what really happened behind the scenes when she was filming the first Star Wars movie.

Fans of Carrie were devastated by the news of her ill health and took to Twitter to wish her well.

Praying hard for CARRIE FISHER. Please let her be ok. — Joni Ames (@AmesJoni) December 23, 2016

No, No, No ! not Carrie Fisher . Please get well !!! #theforceisstrong — J_Dee (@jdlnrd) December 23, 2016

Sending healing thoughts and prayers to @carriefisher. I love you! #princess — Laura (@LauraScottBell) December 23, 2016

Recently Carrie opened up about her “intense” three month fling with co-star Harrison Ford – something she talks about in detail in her book.

At the time of their trysts, Carrie was 19 and Harrison was 14 years her senior at 33-years-old.

Appearing on the Today show following the admission, she told hostess Savannah Guthrie: “I’m surprised at the reaction. I don’t think it is that surprising.”

She then spoke about the fandom surrounding the much-loved sci-fi franchise and added: “A lot of the fans did think about it for a while. They made up ‘Carrison’ as a word!”

The Princess Diarist is a collection of excerpts from her diary while she shot the original Star Wars film at Pinewood Studios back in the 70s.

However, in terms of her own memory, she revealed that she didn't remember much, telling Savannah: "I've seen to it that I don't remember much."

6 The pair have remained friends - with Carrie referring to their tryst as a three month one night stand Credit: Allstar Picture Library

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Speaking of her fondness for the handsome star and when pressed about whether or not she loved him, she admitted: "I was 19. Yeah, so... I was not a cavalier type person."

She added: "I wasn't raised that way. But when you're on location everything is permitted."

6 Carrie admitted that she did fall for the star who was 14 years her senior - but she was glad when it ended

Carrie's new memoir is her second autobiography - after documenting her drink and drugs battle in previous release, Wishful Drinking.

The Princess Diarist documents her time on the set of the 1976 smash-hit movie, including bedding Harrison after a birthday party for director George Lucas.

6 The 60-year-old is releasing her new book about her time as Princess Leia

In the book, she alleges the affair with Harrison, who was married at the time, began when he offered to drive her home while she was in a "wine sodden" state.

In a leaked excerpt from the book, which is available on November 22, she said: "How could you ask such a shining specimen of a man to be satisfied with the likes of me? ... I was so inexperienced, but I trusted something about him. He was kind."

She later added: "I was relieved when it ended. I didn't approve of myself."

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