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Elizabeth Taylor received her second Oscar, playing the hard-drinking, blousy, abusive Martha opposite her real-life husband Richard Burton鈥檚 George in Who鈥檚 Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Years later, after an intervention by her family, Taylor would become the first A-list celebrity publicly to enter rehab.

TV and radio presenter (and I鈥檓 a Celebrity Get me Out of Here participant) Iain Lee shares his own relationship to fame and to addiction. With extracts from a 1985 Channel Four interview with the late Mavis Nicholson, in which Taylor revealed details of her time in the Betty Ford Center, and a contribution from Ellis Cashmore, author of 鈥楨lizabeth Taylor, a Private Life for Public Consumption'.

With Louise Gallagher.

Produced by Alan Hall with music by Jeremy Warmsley.
A Falling Tree production for 麻豆约拍 Radio Four.