Title aside, beyond an opening (“Hi, I’m Carrie Fisher and I’m an alcoholic”) and a few stray nods (“You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously”), this is not a memoir of substance abuse. And I’ve been trying to make up for that fact ever since - even this show tonight is a pathetic bid for the attention that I lacked as a newborn.” (Her father, who died in September, was still alive and in the present tense when the show was taped.) Show business warped her life from her first breath, as she tells it, with doctors and nurses so bedazzled by her famous folks that “when I arrived I was virtually unattended.

“If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true - and that is completely unacceptable,” Fisher says near the top of “Wishful Drinking,” a taped performance of her still-touring one-woman show (also adapted to a book), which comes Sunday to HBO.

Possibly you also know that she is the daughter of the actress Debbie Reynolds, and less probably you may know that she is the daughter of the singer Eddie Fisher, because you are less likely to know who Eddie Fisher was, as much of a pop star as he was in his day. You know it, and she knows it, and she knows you know it, and that will bind you as long as you both shall live. Carrie Fisher played Princess Leia Organa in the first three “Star Wars” movies.

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