However, like all legendary lovers (ahem, Ben Affleck, and Jennifer Lopez), Taylor and Burton couldn't stay away from each other. So, less than a year later, in 1975, they secretly wed again; shocking but likely not surprising to the public. Burton and Taylor's passion was often detailed in prolific love letters. Unfortunately, nine months later, Taylor would sign a much less romantic document — her divorce papers. "I love Richard with every fiber of my soul, but we can't be together," she said, according to Town&Country.
Throughout the rest of their lives, their daughter, careers, and spellbinding love for one another would continue to pull them back together, though they would never wed again. Taylor even once told authors, Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, "In my heart, I will always believe we would have been married a third and final time" states Vanity Fair. In a letter dated August 5, 1984, three days before his passing, Burton penned that he also missed Taylor and wanted desperately to return to her.
Nevertheless, only Taylor's fifth and sixth marriages would be to Burton. She seemed to know that while they captivated one another, they also drove each other crazy. In the end, the sage icon fell back on advice she shared with all forlorn lovers: "Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together," as per Town&Country. And that she did. A hopeless romantic, Taylor would go on to be married twice more.
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