Context: Debbie and Eddie got married in 1955 and had two children together: Carrie and Todd Fisher. In 1958, Elizabeth Taylor — who was Debbie’s close friend — had an affair with Eddie, and they got married the following year, reportedly just hours after he and Debbie officially divorced.
Last year, the HBO documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes shared previously unheard details about her life, including the star admitting that she regretted marrying Eddie. “As a matter of fact, I don’t remember too much about my marriage to him, except it was one big, friggin’ awful mistake. I knew it before we were married and didn’t know how to get out of it,” she said.
