Debbie Reynolds’ son recalls humiliating Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher affair: ‘Bad girl’
nypost.comaffair heard around the world, when Elizabeth Taylor infamously stole best friend Debbie Reynolds’ husband Eddie Fisher.The “Singin’ in the Rain” star — who died in 2016 just a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher — was married to the singer while Taylor was wedded to Mike Todd.It was after Todd’s death in 1958 that things began to go south.Reynolds’ son, Todd Fisher, opened up about the “Cleopatra” star’s rendezvous with his father and how it made his mother feel to Fox News.Eddie and Reynolds divorced in 1959, and he subsequently married Taylor just weeks after.
However, the “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” star left him five years later for two-time husband Richard Burton.“My father left my mother for Elizabeth Taylor,” Todd said. “A lot of people were mad about that.”“A lot of people were like, ‘So your dad left the good girl for the bad girl’… Liz made no bones about being the bad girl.
She came a long way from ‘National Velvet,'” he continued. Todd went on: “So when my mother was put in the position of being humiliated by my father… my mother was a classy person.”The messy situation included Taylor being labeled as a jezebel while the “Any Time” crooner was seen as a man who left his family.The “Halloweentown” alum was branded as a virtuous victim who was left heartbroken in front of the news cameras.Photoplay magazine even published a headline in 1958 that read: “Smiling through her tears, Debbie says: I’m still very much in love with Eddie.”“She never talked my father down to us,” Todd recalled. “She could have given us an earful about Eddie leaving her for Liz.
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