20th Century Fox Chairman Spyros Scuras wrote of “the beating that Burton inflicted on her in Santo Stefano. She got two black eyes, her nose was out of shape and it took her 22 days to recover enough to resume filming.”
Taylor sticks to the official story told the press: “I slept in the back seat of the car and the driver turned a corner and hit his nose in the ashtray.”
She also claims that they tried to stop the affair out of respect for Sybil, while admitting that her relationship with Fisher is over.
They both returned to their partners after filming ended in the summer of 1962. Taylor was virtually separated from Fisher, but he would not allow her to divorce until March 1964. However, she was already reunited with Burton in another film. , The VIPs, where their affair flared up again in early 1963.
Sybil filed for divorce on the grounds of “abandonment and cruel and inhuman treatment” in December. Three months later, Burton and Taylor were married in Montreal.
Burton died only 58 in 1984, and Taylor later said, “The day he died, I was still madly in love with him. I think he still loved me.”
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