How does he enjoy life, I ask? "He likes watching sport," she replies. "She is my imperial woman." "I take care of all his chores so he can enjoy life," says Betty. It is: "Do you need a sandwich, Eddie?" And: "I'll take this scone with me because you might want it later, Eddie." It was Betty who ordered him into the Betty Ford clinic, to get clean. "She even said, while I was writing it, that if I was rude about her or her mom she'd stop speaking to me and wouldn't let me see my grand-daughter Billie."īetty, a still fabulous-looking Chinese American in her sixties (I would guess) who has made her own fortune in printing, looks after Eddie as if, yes, he was a child. But he did, ultimately, manage to get close to Carrie. Debbie, he writes in the book, used to sign his name to Carrie and Todd's Christmas presents so they would believe he had remembered. Then she said, no, she was going to change her DNA." He says this lightly, although I'm sure it must hurt. "First, Carrie said she was going to change her name from Fisher to Reynolds. "She wishes I was dead but, hey, can I help it?" It's upset Carrie. "She was like a robot." It has upset Liz, detailing as it does her histrionics, her addictions, her desire, even, to be beaten up before sex. It has upset Debbie, whom he describes as a cold, manipulative "phoney", never especially lively in bed. The book is a hot read, a lot juicier than most memoirs, and has upset a lot of people. "Although I'm sure I must have gone out with some non-beautiful women." "It is for someone who once had the greatest hair. oh, this hair is terrible." Come now, I say soothingly, it isn't that bad. "Oh, my hair, my hair, give me my hair back," he cries. I tell him that at least he still has his hair. What happened?" I tell him he looks OK to me. He is wearing Cartier sunglasses, a spectacular diamond ring and the most exquisite, suede, multi-coloured slipper-like shoes - "I love shoes, don't I Betty?" "You sure do, Eddie." They have just, it turns out, come from a TV interview during which a 1959 film clip of Eddie was shown. Eddie, the one-time singing phenomenon who, in 1954, had an unbelievable 65,000 fan clubs and was earning $1m a year ($1million a year! In 1954!) is 71 now. I am waiting in the lobby of The Sloane Club in London when Eddie Fisher arrives with his fourth wife, Betty Lin.
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