The “Cleopatra” star married Reynolds’ ex-husband Eddie Fisher in 1959 after beginning an extramarital affair one year earlier.
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’ NYC townhouse lists for $11.5MIt was after Todd’s death in 1958 that things began to go south.
Reynolds’ son, Todd Fisher, opened up about the “Cleopatra” star’s rendezvous with his father and how it made his mother feel toHowever, the “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” star left him five years later for two-time husband Richard Burton.“A lot of people were like, ‘So your dad left the good girl for the bad girl.’… Liz made no bones about being the bad girl. She came a long way from ‘National Velvet,'” he continued.
Todd went on: “So when my mother was put in the position of being humiliated by my father… my mother was a classy person.”The messy situation included Taylor being labeled as a jezebel while the “Any Time” crooner was seen as a man who left his family. The “Halloweentown” alum was branded as a virtuous victim who was left heartbroken in front of the news cameras.
Photoplay magazine even published a headline in 1958 that read: “Smiling through her tears, Debbie says: I’m still very much in love with Eddie.”“She never talked my father down to us,” Todd recalled. “She could have given us an earful about Eddie leaving her for Liz. And a lot of it, of course, was in our faces too as children growing up. And this scandal never really went away. To this day, it’s still talked about.
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