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Article: The Richard Burton story: Part 3 - Heartbreak of devoted dad; STALKED BY GUILT OVER HIS SICK DAUGHTER.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 24, 2000
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WHENEVER Richard Burton thought about his daughter Jessica, it was with a staggering agony.
She had been born with severe mental problems and was trapped in the silent prison of autism and schizophrenia.
Her illness cast a shadow of torment over him for the last 20 years of his life.
Jessica was the second of his daughters with his first wife Sybil - a feisty, beautiful Welsh actress whom he left for the truly great passion of his life Elizabeth Taylor.
But Pontrhydyfen-born Burton, who died aged 58 in August 1984, believed his desertion ...