ET: Elizabeth Taylor Near Death Rumor Not True

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Originally Posted by Richard B

I'm pretty sure Liz has been at death's door many times, according to gossip rags. I think it started in the 80's.

Oh nooooo it started in 1961 when she was not yet 30 years old while filming Cleopatra in London she got a severe case of pneumonia that had her at the very do0r of death and she recieved a tracheotomy and survived and then won an Academy award for the rather tawdry Butterfield 8 the thinking at the time was she won it due to her near death experience that reversed public opinion as she had been in the dog house after stealing Debbie Reynold's husband ..Shirley MacLaine who was up that year for the much better film The Apartment famously quipped I lost the Oscar to a tracheotomy.