Elizabeth Taylor quote about first marriage

Elizabeth Taylor Quote:

“I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married—the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel. When he drank it all came out, and I hadn’t seen that before because he was on the wagon the eight months we were engaged. I didn’t have a clue. But I thought, This isn’t why God put me on Earth. We were married in a Catholic church. I had studied Catholicism for almost a year. But when I had to swear in front of the archbishop to be a good wife and all that stuff, I had my fingers crossed behind my back because I didn’t know if I could be a good wife; I knew I was still a child.”

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Elizabeth Taylor quote about first marriage source:

• Portrait of Elizabeth Taylor taken circa 1955 – Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taylor,_Elizabeth_posed.jpg
• Sischy, Ingrid. Elizabeth Taylor: Chapter Two. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/elizabeth-taylor-chapter-two

Notes:

Click here to read a quote from actress Greta Garbo about he early life.

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