But what exactly had she gone through, from her childhood fame to her death in 2011?
Here are some tragic details about Dame Elizabeth Taylor’s life that you might not have known about.
Unfortunately, Taylor’s father did not take kindly to his daughter’s success.
However, Taylor said that she learned to forgive her father as an adult.
“I was used from the day I was a child, and utilized by the studio.
I was promoted for their pockets.
I never felt that they were a haven,” she toldRolling Stonein 1987.
Taylor’s free-spirited and fiery personality did not mesh well with the controlling MGM studio executives.
MGM’s vice president demanded that Taylor apologize, but she stuck to her guns and refused.
“I don’t know where I found the independence,” she said later about the argument.
However, her parents luckily put a stop to this plan.
“God forbid you do anything individual or go against the fad.
But I did,” Taylor confidently told Rolling Stone.
“God must have had some reason for giving me bushy eyebrows and black hair.
I guess I must have been pretty sure of my sense of identity.
It was me,” she added.
Taylor’s gripping performance was also praised by the media.
“The picture’s major asset is Taylor,“Varietyprinted in 1959.
“It is a torrid, stinging portrayal with one or two brilliantly executed passages within.”
However, Taylor’s personal perception of the film was rather different.
She’s a sick nymphomaniac.”
Taylor was so disgusted by the movie that she originally turned down the role.
MGM paid in full for the lavish ceremony with 600 guests.
The pair had two children named Michael and Christopher but ended up divorcing in 1957.
“God, I loved him.
Taylor’s other friend Shirley Maclaine toldThe Hollywood Reporter, “She was terrible, just terrible.
Absolutely distraught, wouldn’t eat.
It was a very, very bad time.”
Stricken by grief, Reynold’s husband Eddie Fisher supported Taylor emotionally during this time.
However, the two later began a high-profile affair.
You’re too beautiful.”
Taylor divorced Fisher in 1964 and married Burton two weeks later.
And Taylor’s marriage to Burton turned out to be her longest, as they stayed together from 1964-1974.
Still, their reunion didn’t last long, and they divorced again in 1976.
Dubbed “Liz and Dick,” their relationship was known for being extremely intense and rocky.
“I don’t want to be that much in love ever again … “Elizabeth Taylor was distraught.
She eventually got sick and was hospitalized.
It cost them more days.
She took it the hardest out of everybody,” wrote Graham.
However, the lifestyle of a politician’s wife soon made her feel suffocated.
“Drugs had become a crutch.
“I was taking a lot of Percodan.
I’d take Percodan and a couple of drinks before I would go out.
I just felt I had to get stoned to get over my shyness.
I needed oblivion, escape.”
She met her seventh and final husband there, a construction worker 20 years her junior named Larry Fortensky.
They married in 1991 but divorced five years later due to his excessive drinking.
Oh, my god.'
But nobody was doing anything.
And that really angered me so much.”
No one was very clear about AIDS then.
I reassured her that normal contact was all right, and we went inside.
She kissed his cheek, hugged him, and sat on the bed.”
She later famously appeared to accept her Oscar for “Butterfield 8” with a bandage over her scar.
Sadly, this was not to be.”
Throughout her life, the star had earned a reputation for rarely being on time.
