life, that s your rock and the career ebbs and flows up and down. for her it was the other way around. she embraced hollywood. that was part of her rock. she was part of her religion, so to speak. she went with it, i would say. and ironically, her daughter kind of was the rebel that was a little bit more anti-hollywood in a sense. but she loved what she did. she absolutely embraced all the aspect of hollywood, the fame, the pressure, like she said, the rejection, we ve all experienced that you have to have thick skin in this industry. and you have to learn that no means no only for that moment and you have to keep pushing through. she lived by that rule. we think it s harder because of social media now. but the tabloids were tough before there was the internet. lice spread like wildfire. now we hear rumors all the time of celebrities dying this person is doing this. back then it was a small knit community where that rumor would
circle around or the lice told or the pressure, the rejection, people not getting a role or up against a role. it was a smaller community and it still traveled pretty fast then. yes. i think each with it she was able to defend herself in a public way growing up as stars are able to do now. apples and oranges here. nonetheless, she handled it very well. she handled it so well that we had her, in her career, she didn t stop, all the way until she was 84 years old. and she had to deal with that very public scandal when eddie fisher, her husband, ran off with elizabeth taylor. such a difficult thing to deal with but she did it with grace. absolutely. i typed in debby reynolds scandal and that was really the only thing that showed up which i thought was impressive. i m not saying it had to do with her. it wasn t something she did. it happened to her. but for her to have integrity and class, to go an approach