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Elizabeth Taylor’s addiction to drugs, alcohol led to family intervention, son saysBela Lugosi, who made his mark as Dracula in Hollywood , insisted to reporters he battled a crippling addiction to drugs for over two decades — but one author claimed he “deliberately exaggerated” his story for a heartbreaking reason.
But despite skyrocketing to fame, Lugosi became dependent on morphine due to injuries he suffered in World War I, Turner Classic Movies reported. “The divorce from Lillian in 1953 devastated him,” Cremer explained. “He was a very proud man, and he took his marriage seriously. He took his responsibility for his family very seriously. And in those years, between 1948 and… through the early 1950s, he was just on the road constantly.”
“I brought boxes of Kleenex to Lillian’s place when we talked about ,” Cremer recalled. “The tears flowed endlessly. She really loved him, but Bela could not conquer his jealousy. And because there was a 30-year difference in age, he always felt that he was inadequate as a husband and was very jealous. For that reason, he felt Lillian must be looking around for younger men, which was absolutely not the case. Because of the jealousy, Lillian finally felt that she could not expose her son Bela Jr.
“We agreed on the fact that we wanted this drug issue clarified for once and for all, so there is no more misinformation floating around about it,” Cremer added.Lugosi struggled with painful sciatica in his later years. Still, he was determined to perform for fans. Cremer described how, before an appearance on stage as Dracula where he had to climb out of a coffin, he was “deathly afraid” that a sciatic attack would occur on stage, interrupting his performance.
Cremer said Lugosi was exploited by film studios. At the end of his life, the actor felt he had been forgotten.
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