Burton’s suicidal letters to Taylor revealed
June 2nd, 2010 - 5:43 pm ICT by IANSLondon, June 2 (IANS) Actress Elizabeth Taylor has made public a series of love letters she received from her late husband Richard Burton.
The British actor, who died in 1984, wrote in one of his letters that he would commit suicide if Taylor left him, reports telegraph.co.uk. “If you leave me I shall have to kill myself. There is no life without you,” Burton wrote.
During their stormy relationship, Burton wrote another letter confessing that they misunderstand each other, but he wants to be with her.
“You must know, of course, how badly I treat you. But the fundamental and most vicious, swinish, murderous, and unchangeable fact is that we totally misunderstand each other. I love you and I always will. Come back to me as soon as you can,” he wrote.
The extracts have been taken from a book “Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century”, written by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.
Taylor, 78, who has been married eight times in all, admitted that Burton was magnificent and they were madly in love.
“Richard was magnificent in every sense of the word. And in everything he ever did. From those first moments in Rome we were always madly and powerfully in love. We had more time but not enough,” Taylor said.
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