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Elizabeth Taylor's father branded her a w***e when her affair with Richard Burton was exposed in a shocking revelation from unearthed interview


Elizabeth Taylor's father branded her a w***e when her affair with Richard Burton was exposed in a shocking revelation from unearthed interview.

The late movie icon says that Francis Taylor was furious after she divorced Fisher in 1964 and married Burton 10 days later, an act which scandalized Hollywood and drew the ire of the Vatican [pictured with her mother and father in 1959] As a 19-year-old divorcee, Taylor enjoyed the first independent time of her life and she had a ball while staying at the Plaza Hotel in New York with Roddy McDowall, her co-star on Lassie who became a lifelong friend. Their connection came through their mutual curiosity and because Todd, a self educated man, didn't make Taylor feel inadequate as she did in Hollywood due to her lack of formal training as an actress.

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