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Elizabeth Taylor's son reveals family held 'difficult' intervention over her spiraling drug and alcohol use


Elizabeth Taylor's son Christopher Wilding revealed recently that her family made the difficult decision to hold an intervention for her in her in the 1980s.

Wilding added that family members would speak to Taylor about her substance use occasionally, but it didn't seem to make an impact on her usage, so an intervention was proposed. Wilding remarked that his mother 'had to do a lot of things she never had to do in her adult life' when she checked in to the Betty Ford Center, which included sharing a room with a stranger. The heiress Aileen Getty, who was married to Wilding from 1981 to 1989, recalled in the documentary how her former mother-in-law wasn't afraid to speak about her substance use struggles with family members.

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