At the end of July the National Enquirer reported that Liz Taylor was in hospital on life support, surrounded by family and friends who were concerned she wasn’t going to make it through the night. Which is actually quite nice, that they would be there for her. What’s even nicer, particularly for Liz, is that she’s out of the hospital and back at work.
“Ms. Taylor is at home and happy – and busier than ever,” the unidentified friend told People.com.
“She’s living her life. She’s been having dinner with friends. She’s working.”
Sources cited by People.com did not said when exactly the 76-year-old was discharged from the hospital, but Mr Guttman said it was recently.
Another friend told the magazine that Taylor already was fit enough to plan upcoming trips to Europe and Hawaii, and to weigh in on holiday packaging for her perfume line White Diamond.
The last official statement on Taylor’s condition came July 31, when Mr Guttman confirmed that she had been admitted to hospitalbut denied as “dramatic, overstated and untrue” tabloid reports at the time that she was seriously ill.
He said then that her hospital visit was “precautionary.”
Liz has suffered a benign brain tumor, scoliosis, 2 hip replacements, multiple bouts of pneumonia, and has broken her back several times. Not to mention her multiple divorces, and drug and alcohol issues. She also has a young companion, industrialist Jason Winters, who is 28 years her junior. Despite her illnesses, Elizabeth Taylor, she seems to have an energy that is just amazing. I think I’m going to go introduce my daughter to National Velvet now.
Liz Taylor is shown out in Beverly Hills on 4/18/08 and out in LA 3/20/08. Credit: WENN
That top pic is just fabulous. Love this fiesty, fiery old trooper. Good to hear she’s on the mend.
The beauty that Liz possessed. say in the film ‘Butterfield Eight’ or ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ (go rent them and know there was life before you came on earth) should be declared a national treasure. The lesson here is that age 76 is not that old. Some women look terrific at this age. So if you think lots of booze and drugs will not affect you, I can assure you that you will love being able to get around without a wheelchair when you are age 76. 96 is old.
Isn’t she great? They just don’t make ’em like her any more. She has lived more in her 76 years than most people could live in 200, and she keeps right on going. Bless her.
Yeah, tp vero, know what you’re saying, but it’s her life, it’s how she’s chosen to live it and, as Syko says, Liz has had more ‘life’ in her life than most. Each to their own, bet she wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Agree Syko, she’s great.
Loved her in Giant & Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Liz & Richard remind me of my folks in that film.
Hang in there Liz
She’s only 76?
Daisy, Giant is one of my faves, too. I also have an abiding love of Cleopatra and A Place In the Sun (oh, Monty Cliff, will you marry me?).
What does work involve for Liz?
Kaiser; Monty Clift, love him. I like the quiet brooding types myself, like Johnny Depp.
He was MM’s drinking buddie. Tragic souls those two…..
Oh, how I love Elizabeth Taylor! And right as I sat down to the computer with my plate of eggs to eat breakfast while checking out the day’s CeleBitchy stories, I had a flashing hope that I wouldn’t see any wrenching sudden death headlines – then I saw the Name Elizabeth Taylor, and for an instant I was scared to keep reading, you know, since she’s been in hospital lately. Thank god she’s not only out of hospital, but still rarin’ to go!
I love her, LOVE her. Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Streetcar with beautiful Marlon Brando, Night of the iguana, of COURSE National Velvet, and everything she did with Richard Burton, on-screen as well as off. Taylor’s life, her artistic genius, her beauty, everything about her I’m fascinated with. She is a living legend, one of my remaining-alive few super-favourites.
A couple of months ago I was having lunch at the Abbey in West Hollywood and it got kind of winday and they moved us to a more “inside” location. We were seated right next to Liz and she was darling! I was absolutely thrilled to see her and she was so sweet. Most celeb sightings don’t do much for me, but she is truly a living legend. Glad everything is going well Liz!
GAH!!! Ron, you are SO LUCKY!! That is awesome, now THERE is a celebrity I would be eternally stoked to get to meet in person. It even feels hollow calling Liz Taylor a “celebrity.” She’s in a celebrated class of her own, “living legend” class. Like Lauren Bacall, and Kirk Douglas, etc., Living Legends.
Proper bona fide movie stars, snowblood. 8)
And there IS a difference. Can’t think of one contemporary actor/actress (apart from the ones you listed and others of their generation) that I’d refer to as a movie star. Jack Nicholson, possibly, but Liz is most definitely the last of a dying breed.
Snowy – you’re a Brit? (me too, btw.
Sorry everyone for hijacking the thread.
I’m a duelie, OrangeJ, born in England to my American Mother and English Dad, raised in the beginning in southern England, then Ireland, then went to Canada, traveled, grew up everywhere, but yeah – so, I am half-a-Brit. I’ve got 2 passports, lucky me. 😛
Snowy, where in Canada??
There never will or ever be anyone like Liz. She’s the epitome of glamour & that face is all hers. There isn’t one actress in today’s world that even comes close. What is wrong w/Hollywood today? Seems like most people get shoved down our throats because they know someone in the biz.
I adore Zsa Zsa, also. She had such a great nose job done in the 50’s no less.
Snow, where in Canada? I bought a house there a few years back. I go up there all of the time. It was great about 14 yrs. ago when we had 53% on their dollar.
I just have to say…the writers of this blog & the commenters are so much more interesting than the stars/celebs.
My fave thing on here is the comments.