Carrie Fisher on her blind date with Chris Dodd

By The Reliable Source

November 10, 2011 at 5:40 p.m. EST

Carrie Fisher in 1987. Former Connecticut senator Chris Dodd, 1984. (James Atherton/Bill Snead/The Washington Post)

Carrie Fisher waited until her sixth book, "Shockaholic," to share the tale of her infamous blind date with Chris Dodd.

It was 1985 when the "Star Wars" actress, shooting a mini-series in Baltimore, was set up with the junior senator from Connecticut. "Not a handsome man," writes Fisher, "but he was far from unattractive." They ended up at a fancy restaurant in Georgetown, where they were joined in a private room by Dodd's drinking buddy, Ted Kennedy, his date and an unnamed couple from McLean.

The liquor flowed but Fisher, fresh from her first stint in rehab, was sober and subdued. Suddenly, Kennedy turned to her and asked, “So, do you think you’ll be having sex with Chris at the end of your date?”

Dodd looked at her with "an unusual grin hanging on his very flushed face," writes Fisher. That probably won't happen, she told them. Why? demanded Kennedy. "I'd have to be truly loaded to just fall into bed with someone I've only very recently met," she explained. "Even if that someone is a Democrat."

Fisher saw Dodd a few more times; when he ran for president he described their relationship as a “courtship.” “Is that what they call sleeping together a few times?” she writes. Dodd, now head of the MPAA, had no comment.