Elizabeth Taylor attempted suicide during her ‘awful’ marriage to Eddie Fisher: new doc

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“Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes” which premiered Aug. 3, features interviews that the late movie star had with journalist Richard Meryman from 1964 to 1965.Taylor called her marriage to Fisher “one big friggin’ awful mistake” in one of the interview tapes.“Eddie made sure that I felt lonely.

We never went out,” she said. The “Cleopatra” actress had an affair with Fisher while he was still married to Debbie Reynolds.The pair are said to have wed only three hours after Fisher’s divorce from Reynolds was finalized in 1959, and the relationship lasted four years.In the doc, Taylor told Meryman that she was so depressed while married to Fisher that she attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills “deliberately, calmly and in front of Eddie.”“I’d rather be dead than face divorce,” she said in an audio tape. “I was fed up with living.” But Taylor survived the attempt, later seeing it as “self-indulgent” because of the “horrific” consequences for her children.Taylor had three children by the time she married Fisher.

She shared sons Michael Wilding Jr. and Christopher Wilding with her second husband, Michael Wilding, and daughter Liza Frances Todd with her third husband, Mike Todd.The Hollywood icon and Fisher divorced in 1964, two years after Taylor began an affair with her “Cleopatra” co-star and two-time husband, Richard Burton.In the doc, Taylor said that during her affair with Burton, Fisher would sit at her bedside and wake her up by pointing a gun at her and saying, “I wouldn’t kill you.

I wouldn’t shoot you.”Despite marrying Fisher, Taylor said that she “never loved” her fourth husband.“I liked him and liked talking about Mike with him… I don’t remember much about my marriage, except it was one big, giant mistake, and I.