Elizabeth Taylor was famously married eight times (to seven different men) and had a host of admirers.
Some of her admirers would leave fans speechless and rather surprised.
One suitor among her repertoire was well known actor Colin Farrell, who was 44 years younger than the Hollywood legend. The two met at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, California, in 2009, when Taylor was having a heart procedure and Farrell was there for the birth of his son.
After their chance encounter, Farrell now 46, called his agent and asked if she could arrange a private visit at Taylor’s home.
“Elizabeth was intrigued,” writes Kate Andersen Brewer in the new biography “Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon.” “His Irish brogue and reputation as a non-conformist reminded her of her beloved Richard.”
Taylor was famously married to Welsh-born actor Richard Burton twice, from 1964 to 1974 and 1975 to 1976.
During their first meeting, Farrell brought along a copy of poetry by Yeats and told Elizabeth that if she ever wanted him to come back and read poetry to her he would happily oblige.
Afterward, Taylor wrote to the actor: “What a pleasure it was to meet you. And thank God you really are a true Celt. You remind me of so many good things. So many happy things. Thank you for being so real.”
“He came, again and again, to read to her,” writes Brewer. “He sat in an armchair beside her bed and she occasionally played recordings of Richard reading poetry.”
And that was the beginning of a year and a half or two years of what was a really cool relationship,” Farrell revealed on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2013. “It was kind of like the last, it feels like in my head, not hers, I’m projecting, but the last kind of romantic relationship I had. Which was never consummated.”
Farrell and Taylor continued to grow close for the rest of her life and traded several late-night phone calls.
Farrell said, “I’d call her at two in the morning, and the nurse would answer the phone, and I’d say, ‘Is she awake?’ … And we’d talk for a half an hour, an hour, into the wee hours. It was really cool. I just adored her. She was a spectacular, spectacular woman. I wanted to be husband number nine, but we ran out of road.”
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