Unsinkable by Debbie Reynolds5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() She purchased a Las Vegas hotel without getting a gaming license. Reynolds’ third husband cannot be blamed for all of her financial problems. When she didn’t answer her phone and the hotel refused to let a staff member check the room, Debbie sent her trusted pal Ava Gardner, who was in London, to the hotel to take care of things. ![]() She hadn’t overdosed but had taken too many pills because she was ill. ![]() Nor is there much about her daughter, writer-actress Carrie Fisher except the harrowing story of Fisher’s overdose in London when Reynolds’ was about to be married to Hamlett. Reynolds’ first marriage, which ended when Eddie Fisher left her for Elizabeth Taylor, is barely mentioned. There is a mentality at work that says, ‘It’s okay to rob Debbie blind, I work for her.’ Or, ‘She’s my wife, everything she has is mine.’ I don’t think like a thief, so I never see this quality in others until it’s too late.” ![]() “It never ceases to amaze me that people feel free to help themselves to my money and property. “I was a romantic,” she says, in an attempt to explain. Nowhere does Reynolds or the co-writer who turned her words into a book seriously answer the question of how the actress could have been hooked, at the age of 52, by a con man after her equally disastrous second marriage to a gambling rich man, Harry Karl, cost her all the money she had saved and left her millions of dollars in debt. ‘Love Again’ Review: Not Even Celine Dion Can Save This Wildly Contrived Rom-Com from Its Own Sadness ![]()
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