A CONTROVERSIAL documentary has revealed a brand-new side of Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor.
The new documentary featuring the beloved Hollywood star takes a fresh look at her several failed marriages as well as her persistent health problems.
In never-before-heard audio, the Cleopatra star manages to give her own voice to the problems she experienced as an icon on the silver screen.
“She lived big. She lived very, very big,” the documentary director, Natalie Burnstein, told ABC’s Good Morning America.
“Every day was a big day in Elizabeth Taylor’s life. She did what she wanted, she made choices in her love life and her personal life, despite whatever the fallout would be publicly, [and] the public was obsessed with her for all of those reasons.”
Natalie later told ABC News that the Cat on A Hot Tin roof star was “under scrutiny 24/7.”
“She was the first modern celebrity,” she explained. “We look at what happened with Princess Di[ana] or Taylor Swift, the paparazzi follows you and you are judged in everything you do.”
According to Natalie, the new HBO documentary will feature audio from a 1964 interview the actress had with a LIFE Magazine reporter named Richard Meryman.
“I think some part of me is sorry that I became… a public utility,” Elizabeth can be heard telling the journalist.
“I know I should be grateful… I don’t like fame. I don’t like the sense of belonging to the public.”
While her achievements on the movie screen are well known, the documentary touches on the more private aspects of the film star’s life.
One point frequently touched upon is the fact that the former child actor had married and divorced three times before turning 30.
In 1951, at the age of 18, Elizabeth married socialite and hotel heir, Conrad Hilton Jr.
The marriage between the two lasted a full year before the pair separated.
Perhaps the most prominent of Elizabeth’s relationships was her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher.