Elizabeth Taylor says she ‘never loved’ husband Eddie Fisher and marriage was a ‘mistake’ in new documentary at Cannes

ELIZABETH Taylor has shared how she really felt about her husband, Eddie Fisher, throughout their marriage in a new documentary about the star’s life. The late actress appeared in the HBO documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, which premiered on Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival. GettyElizabeth Taylor revealed she never loved her husband Eddie Fisher in a new documentary, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes[/caption] The documentary premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, where the late actress recalled her marriage with Eddie in audio recordingsRex GettyElizabeth also recalled the alleged abuse she suffered from Eddie throughout their marriage[/caption] Within the documentary’s over 70 hours of never-before-heard audio recordings, Elizabeth – who died over a decade ago in 2011 – reflected on her marriage to Eddie, admitting it was not what it seemed. The Cleopatra star revealed that she “never loved” Eddie, whom she was married to from 1959 to 1964, and thought their union was “one big awful mistake.” They were first linked in 1958, after Elizabeth’s third husband, producer Mike Todd, died in a horrific plane crash. She found comfort in The Eddie Fisher Show host, who was a close friend of her late husband. “I never loved Eddie. I felt sorry for him. And I liked talking to him about Mike,” the London-born starlet said in the documentary. “I don’t remember much about the marriage apart from that it was one big awful frigging mistake — and I knew that before I got married. “But I didn’t know how to get out of it,” Elizabeth confessed. She also alleged that she suffered abuse from Eddie, more so after meeting her eventual fifth husband, actor Richard Burton, while filming Cleopatra in 1960. “Eddie at nighttime would sit up – and he had a gun,” Elizabeth recalled. “Every time I nearly nodded off, he would stroke my arm and say: I’m not going to kill you, I wouldn’t shoot you, you are much too pretty.” The Hollywood star continued, “All night long. “Eventually, I ran from the house – I was so scared.” Elizabeth ended up marrying Richard ten days after divorcing Eddie in 1964. Eddie had a similar love story with his ex-wife, Debbie Reynolds, whom he was married to when he met Elizabeth. The ladies were also close friends at the time, with Debbie being Elizabeth’s matron of honor at her wedding to Mike. I don’t remember much about the marriage apart from that it was one big awful frigging mistake. Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes Eddie eventually left Debbie and tied the knot with Elizabeth, who claimed the former couple’s relationship was on the rocks long before she entered the picture. “It was distressing to open the papers day after day and see captions under my photographs referring to me as a homewrecker,” Elizabeth wrote in her biography about the messy love triangle. Debbie also spoke about it in an interview with People in 1983, “A man doesn’t leave a woman for another woman unless he wants to go. You know, when Mike Todd died, I sent Eddie to help Elizabeth. “I don’t think she ever really loved Eddie. He was an interim interest during her mourning period,” she said. Elizabeth exchanged vows with four other men in her lifetime, including construction worker Larry Fortensky, politician John W. Warner, actor Michael Wilding, and hotel heir Conrad Hilton, Jr. While Elizabeth and Eddie never had kids together, the Cat On a Hot Tin Roof star shared three biological children and one adopted child with her other ex-husbands. GettyElizabeth and Eddie were married from 1959 to 1964[/caption]