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Audrey Hepburn’s Lifelong Trauma from Growing Up in Nazi-Occupied Netherlands Led Her to Turn Down a High-Profile Role


Audrey Hepburn was living in the Netherlands and studying ballet when the Nazis moved in amid the action of World War II. Her son Sean Hepburn Ferrer and co-author Wendy Holden look back at how those moments from her teen years stayed with the actress for life in their biography, ‘Intimate Audrey.’

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