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>> reporter: with all manner of self-medication including taking bills to control her emotions. >> any mood stabilizer is a weight gainer. you feel better but then you're fat, so what you gain is a loss. it's not a good situation. >> reporter: fisher spoke about being bipolar and often turned pain into humor also writing "wishful drinking" and "shockohol "shockoholic." fisher was briefly married to paul simon in 1980s. years later she gave birth to a daughter billy katherine with her relationship with brian lor lorry. she debuted. and in soap dish. and as meg ryan's white cracking friend in "w...

Up in front of all those people. >> it twirled up! >> reporter: she poked fun at show biz light and all manner of self-medication including taking pills to control her emotions. >> any mood stabilizer is a weight gainer. so you feel better, but then you're fat. so what you gain is a loss. it's not a good situation. >> reporter: fisher spoke about being bipolar and often turned pain into humor. also writing "wishful drinking," and "shock-a-hollic." elizabeth taylor became her stepfather. she was briefly married to paul simon and years later gave birth to a daughter billie catherine. she debuted...

Thought of in the the car one day driving back from palm springs with the music up loud. >> reporter: she turned her acclaimed book into a movie starring meryl streep as a recovering addict embroiled in constant often funny mother/daughter drama. >> remember my 17th birthday party when you lifted your skirt up in front of all those -- >> i do not lift my skirt up! it twirled up! >> reporter: fisher poked fun at the absurdities of show biz life and all manner of self-medication, including taking pills to control her emotions. >> any mood stabilizer is a weight gain sore so whether you feel -- y...

>> reporter: fisher poked fun at about sturdies of show business life and all manners of self-medication including taking pills to control her emotions. >> any mood stabilizer is a weight gainer. whether you feel better, then you're fat. so what you gain is a loss. it's just -- it's not a good situation. >> reporter: fisher spoke about being bipolar and often turned pain into humor. also writing, wishful drinking, and shockaholishockaholic. seemed no lack of material. after all, elizabeth taylor became her stp mother when eddie fisher remarried. briefly married to paul simon in the '80s, later...

>> i had to get away from him. it was screwing up my grades, it was screwing up every single thing. and i needed to just get out of there for a while. >> it has been said that she took a leave of absence. she didn't take a leave of absence. she dropped out. she didn't have a place to live. she didn't have a husband and she didn't have any money. >> i was literally looking for friends which is how i met the people that i shouldn't have met. >> one of gloria's new best friends was a 60-year-old woman named niva snyder. >> i really became very fond of niva. i probably was looking for a mother bec...