Poor Debbie, she never has been the same ever since Eddie Fisher dumped herbfor Liz Taylor.
How the hell Fisher nailed Taylor....I’ll never know.
Eddie was a total cad....but Debbie’s second husband, Harry Karl, stole her blind. He lived off his reputation as a millionaire businessman....but he had Debbie sign over total control of her finances to him.
In those days, actresses routinely did this. Doris Day ‘s husband stole every penny she ever made in cahoots w/ a crooked lawyer. She was broke when he died.
In her memoir, Debbie says she first found out when she went to pick up her paycheck from the L/V cashier. She was told Karl had already picked it up.......and, when confronted, she found out he gambled it away.
Debbie - a child of pioneers - never looked backed after that moron Fisher dumped her. She even giggled with Elizabeth Taylor later in life about their escape from that stupid drug-addicted idiot.
Debbie Reynolds - even as explained by her daughter - was a total survivor. I hope she can survive one more time. But this one must be tough.