Han and Leia fans had certainly glamorized the idea of Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford being an item together in real life,

as avid co-star shippers have continued to do for the past 40 years (and probably did since the dawn of cinema).

But there was no proof that the then-19-year-old Fisher and 34-year-old Ford, who was married when Star Wars was shot, had ever gotten romantic during the making of the 1977 classic. 

And there still isn’t any proof, technically, but Fisher is saying it happened, and that’s about as close to a photograph as you’re gonna get.

So, this other woman aside (other, as in Ford’s first wife, Mary Marquardt, whom he could have been estranged from in 1977, two years before they divorced in 1979, you never know),

Han and Leia were gloriously hooking up in real life.

It sounds so romantic, the co-stars’ love-hate passion onscreen translating behind the scenes, not to mention it being the culmination of the dreams of so many Star Wars fans—especially the way Fisher describes it. But on the flip side…

Even if the unfaithful go on to wed each other, boosting the “we’re sorry it happened this way, it was just meant to be” argument, there’s at least one person on the other side of that triangle, if not two as in the case of the dual spurned exes of LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian, who met while making the Lifetime movie Northern Lights.

Not that LeAnn and Eddie, who’ve now been married for five and a half years, broke any sort of mold when they embarked on an affair (Rimes confirmed as much in 2010, a year after her and Cibrian’s respective divorces, telling People, “I take responsibility for everything I’ve done. I hate that people got hurt, but I don’t regret the outcome.”)

Nor did Ford and Fisher for that matter. Actors who showed up on set one day only to find themselves drawn to their co-stars and unable to deny their feelings (or the consummation) is a tale as old as Hollywood.

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall may have been a couple for the ages (whether she liked it or not later in life), but Bogie had to divorce his third wife before he could marry Bacall, who was barely 20 when she met the 45-year-old actor on the set of 1944’s To Have and Have Not.

And Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn may or may not have already been seeing each other when they made their first of nine films together, the 1942 comedy Woman of the Year, but either way, Tracy was married. And not believing in divorce, he stayed married throughout his storied partnership with Hepburn that lasted till his death in 1967.

While you may need to look up the names of Bogart and Tracy’s unlucky spouses, Debbie Reynolds (Carrie Fisher’s mother, of course) was a huge star when Eddie Fisher (Carrie’s father) left her for Elizabeth Taylor—not after he met her on set, however, but after her husband Michael Todd was killed in a plane crash and Fisher swooped in to console her, the lot of them having been friends beforehand. 

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