"The worst thing was thatĭrink really aged my father. Wanted," said Kate, "but there was no back-up or support group "He had a strong will and could stop drinking if he To life - and went to Al-Anon, the organisation run by AlcoholicsĪnonymous to help the relatives of drinkers. Stride - she has clearly inherited her mother's practical approach Kate Burton learned to take her father's drinking in her Very Welsh inside - I feel it like a power. I was raised in New York, but I have inherited his Welshness. "But my main memories of him are as a very tender and loving I remember being on the set ofĪnne Of A Thousand Days in which he played King Henry VIII. Occasionally, when I was going through the rebellious Recalled: "He was so loving - and always there for me when I was Kate Burton, who has her father's looks around the eyes, Gloom, Burton was a thoughtful and caring father. Similarly-afflicted children in America, and is looking after Jessica.įor all his wild ways, heavy drinking and frequent plunges into Of the Devereux Institute which specialises in the care of "Jessica became his shadow, his fear, his horror."Īpart from providing for his daughter, he also sought to makeĪmends by writing and narrating for nothing a half-hour film on the work It gave him an unbearable melancholy.Īs Melvyn Bragg, Burton's official biographer put it: She was calling for her father to stop the pain - for "Rich" Rich, Rich, Rich," was the hysterical cry. Would suddenly start sobbing wildly, screaming one of the few words she Sometimes, when the press became increasingly aggressive, Jessica Painful clarity, how the world's press and the paparazzi were soĭevouring - literally groping at the windows during this period - and Scandal of his affair with Elizabeth Taylor? Burton remembered, with Or the constant press intrusions? Or maybe the widely-publicised so often rumbustious and boozy - affected her? He constantly questioned himself about the child. "bad blood," and a dark, Celtic depression would envelop him It was to stalk him, setting off terrible morbid fears about She isįOR Burton, Jessica's sickness opened up a wide door of guilt "Sadly, I haven't seen her for some time. Own little girl Charlotte I am reminded of my beautiful sister. Jessica was a beautiful little girl - such Then she stoppedĬommunicating altogether. Only communicate by parroting everything I said. ![]() "But she became impossible to handle and obviously needed Touring Britain in The Beauty Queen of Leenane - says her parents lookedĪfter Jessica at home during her infant years. Kate Burton, her 42-year-old elder actress sister - currently ![]() "All I can do is make her rich - and she is rich," he Pennsylvania, paid for by a large provision left to her in Burton's She has, for the past 36 years been under care at a home in Jessica was the second of his daughters with his first wife Sybil -Ī feisty, beautiful Welsh actress whom he left for the truly greatīut Pontrhydyfen-born Burton, who died aged 58 in August 1984,īelieved his desertion of Sybil tipped the disturbed Jessica over theĮdge and into the abyss of mental illness. Her illness cast a shadow of torment over him for the last 20 years The silent prison of autism and schizophrenia. She had been born with severe mental problems and was trapped in WHENEVER Richard Burton thought about his daughter Jessica, it was APA style: The Richard Burton story: Part 3 - Heartbreak of devoted dad STALKED BY GUILT OVER HIS SICK DAUGHTER.The Richard Burton story: Part 3 - Heartbreak of devoted dad STALKED BY GUILT OVER HIS SICK DAUGHTER." Retrieved from MLA style: "The Richard Burton story: Part 3 - Heartbreak of devoted dad STALKED BY GUILT OVER HIS SICK DAUGHTER." The Free Library.
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