Elizabeth Taylor's True Self: Friendship & Advocacy

0:00On April 30th, Elizabeth Taylor was famous for her diamonds and eight marriages, but her best friend Vicki Teal paints a different picture of a woman, who craved a real connection over glamour. She didn't care about mirrors of fame, what lit her up was a big table full of 20 laughing friends sharing meals and gossip. Born in the UK, she moved to the states at age 7 with her art dealer dad and former actress mom right before World War II. Hollywood dubbed her a little refugee, and by 9 she was acting under her mom's strict watch. Pressure's mounted fast. She paid family bills young, faced her dad's drunken outbursts, and starred in National Velvet at 12, missing out on A. Normal Kid Life That loneliness pushed her to marry Hotel Air Nikki Hilton at 18, but it crashed after less than a year, kicking off her search for love. She wed Richard Burton twice, co-starring in 11 films, and won her second Oscar for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1966.

1:00Their passion defined her happiest Hollywood days. Later, she built a lively entourage of 12 pals for girl talk and scrabble, flying in Shepard's pie from England just for fun. She championed equality, seating her black assistant next to Snobby Stars, and mixing her karate-cham driver with royalty like Princess Margaret. It really came first, too. Three kids and 10 grandkids kept her grounded away from spotlights. In her final decades, Taylor poured her stardom into AIDS advocacy, co-founding early groups and fighting till she passed at 79 and 20. 11. She went from lost child star to confident force, proving passion and hard-bring everything you need. You've been listening to Entertainment and celebrity news today, AI-powered pop culture