Elizabeth Taylor’s friend is sharing the V.I.P.s of the bedroom.
Fourteen years after her death in 2011 at the age of 79, Vicky Tiel is sharing some insight into the late star’s romantic life.
“We talked about sex all the time,” the fashion designer, 82, told People, revealing that Taylor’s favorite partner in bed “was Richard (Burton). Absolutely. No question about it. Her lover for life was Richard.”
“She was very fun,” continued Tiel. “She took sex very lightly. She taught me a lot too; if something bad happens, you just roll your eyes, smile and don’t worry about it. She would just always laugh and be happy. She was a very, very happy person.”
Taylor was married to Burton, who died in 1984 at the age of 58 after a brain hemorrhage, from 1964 to 1974. The two divorced before remarrying for a year in 1975.
According to Tiel, her love for the “Becket” star lasted until the end.
“Before Richard died, I think two days before, he called me up,” she reminisced. “He said, ‘I don’t think I’m going to live very long, and I just wanted you and Ron [Tiel’s then husband, makeup artist Ron Berkeley] to tell Elizabeth I’ll always love her the most. I love her forever and ever. And I miss her and I love her with all my heart.’ “
Shortly after when Tiel stopped by Taylor’s Bel Air home, she realized the starlet felt the same.
“She’s taking a bath,” the couture designer shared. “She said, ‘Well, come on in the bathtub.’ So I go in the bathroom. She’s got a bathtub, and all the way around is a ledge around her bathtub. It’s all frames of diamond edges; not real, but I mean, gorgeous frames, maybe 20 frames surrounding the bathtub. It was all pictures of her and Richard.”
Tiel and Taylor first met in Paris in 1964. The film star was looking to change up her wardrobe from ’50s wear to something more chic.
“She threw away the old clothes, the Dior look and the fitted suits,” recalled Tiel. “It was so ‘old lady.’ We were now in the ’60s, the sexual revolution. Elizabeth loved that. From then on she always wore my mini dresses.”
The pals traveled all over Europe together for various movies in the late ’60s and early ’70s.
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All of which is no surprise to Tiel.
“She was the most famous woman on planet Earth,” the fashionista mused.
Taylor, meanwhile, was married seven times over her life.
Along with tying the knot twice with Burton, she also married Conrad Hilton Jr. from 1950 to 1951; Michael Wilding from 1952 to 1957; Mike Todd from 1957 to 1958; Eddie Fisher from 1959 to 1964; John W. Warner from 1976 to 1982; and Larry Fortensky from 1991 to 1996.
She shared sons Michael Jr. and Christopher with Wilding, and daughter Liza with Todd and daughter Maria with Burton.
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She had said that Hilton Jr. abused her while she was pregnant, and that Wilding wasn’t dominant enough for the pair to survive, per People.
But when it came to the ex of Debbie Reynolds and father of “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher, Taylor revealed that she “never loved Eddie.”
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The exes had an affair while Fisher, was still with Reynolds.
“I liked him. I felt sorry for him. And I liked talking to him,” she admitted. “But he was not Mike.”
Todd was Taylor’s third husband, who died in a plane crash in 1958.
“I was keeping Mike alive by talking about him. Because Eddie, he was a great fried of Mike’s,” she shared in the doc. “That was the only thing we had in common, was Mike.”
The pair wed three hours after Fisher’s divorce from Reynolds was finalized, and the relationship lasted four years.
“As a matter of fact, I don’t remember too much about my marriage to him, except it was one big, friggin’ awful mistake,” Taylor explained. “I knew it before we were married and didn’t know how to get out of it.”
