marciabrady:MGM had Elizabeth going steady with Nicky Hilton, a grandfather of Paris Hilton’s,

marciabrady:

MGM had Elizabeth going steady with Nicky Hilton, a grandfather of Paris Hilton’s, for publicity. She was underaged at the time, so the studio arranged their union for shortly after Elizabeth turned eighteen. Elizabeth went along with it, thinking marriage would provide her with independence from her parents and the studio. However, it didn’t take longer than a few weeks after the wedding to realize she had made a huge mistake. Nicky became increasingly violent. Elizabeth finally walked away when one of his beatings caused her to miscarry.

“Marrying Nick had been so easy, so like a fairytale. Everything was lovely; my parents, everyone approved- too perfect, too picturesque, too ideal. When I left him, it was to be the first divorce in our family, and I was totally crushed. I was afraid of sympathy or understanding from anybody. I was afraid of myself. I was afraid to go back to Nick. I was afraid of my total failure. I was afraid of the disappointment to my parents and his parents. I was afraid to be alone. At the age of eighteen, I got ulcers and was living close to a nervous breakdown but divorcing Nick was the first grownup decision I ever made, absolutely alone.”

→ sixteen year old ELIZABETH TAYLORin
CONSPIRATOR(1949)