Shining Through Scandal: The Incredible Life Of Elizabeth Taylor

She Knows She Was Involved With Fisher For The Wrong Reasons

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Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher’s scandalous affair culminated in marriage in May 1959, although Taylor later admitted that she married him out of grief. Taylor told LIFE, “I let myself go into marriage with Eddie because I felt so sick and dead and cold after Mike’s death. I felt I had loved and there would be nothing in my life like that again. But you have to try to survive, make contact with people. I really thought for some idiotic reason that Eddie needed me, and I should make somebody happy. It turned out all we had in common was Mike, who’d been his best friend.”