Read on to discover the untold truth of Audrey Hepburn.
Afterwards, money was collected and given to the Dutch Underground."
Matzen also wrote of 15-year-old Hepburn smuggling food to an Allied fighter pilot whose plane had crashed.
She was able to avoid detection because the German police considered her to be “safe.”
The author also offered a quote from Hepburn about her wartime efforts, who humbly downplayed her role.
“Many were much more courageous than I was.”
The doctor, Matzen told theTimes of Israel, “was instrumental.
He knew where all the Jews were in Velp.”
She danced [to raise money] for the resistance, money to feed Jews in hiding.
Nobody [wrote about] how enmeshed in the Jewish story she was."
As Matzen theorized, it somehow appeared to have the opposite effect.
“Of course, I took it to an extreme,” Hepburn added.
“I forced myself to eliminate the need for food.”
“Why was I spared when so many others were not?”
However, landing that crucial role may never have happened had it not been for a very important letter.
Among the many details he divulged in the book are Hepburn’s beauty secrets, which were excerpted forFrenchVogue.
“She insisted so much on everybody … drinking a lot of water.
In addition, Dotti also revealed Hepburn was something of a vegetarian.
“She ate meat, but very little, in little doses,” he pointed out.
In fact, he wrote, Hepburn accepted aging gracefully.
“She wasn’t afraid at all of getting old.
Hepburn would not appear onscreen again until 1976, opposite Sean Connery inRobin and Marian.
“I suppose you could blame me for ending my mother’s career,” Dotti admitted.
However, Hepburn was not the first actress under consideration for the part.
AsVoguerecalled, Capote was actually pushing for the studio to castMarilyn Monroe.
Capote was reportedly livid over Hepburn’s casting.
“Paramount double-crossed me in every way and cast Audrey,” the author said, as quoted byVogue.
“It was the most miscast film I’ve ever seen.”
Capote wasn’t the only one who thought Hepburn wasn’t fit to play Holly.
Hepburn admitted that she herself “didn’t think I was right for it.”
Throughout the bulk of her career, Hepburn stayed loyal to one fashion house: Givenchy.
“The suit just adapted to her.
Something magic happened.”
AsVanity Fairexplained, this led to the film’s premiere being held in Paris during Fashion Week.
Hepburn’s innate sense of style became her hallmark, both on- and offscreen.
“Audrey’s style is so strong,” Givenchy toldVanity Fair.
“Audrey’s silhouette is so strong.
It doesn’t ever look passe.
She is so present.
Her son Sean and I talk as if she is still alive.”
After his death in 2008,Expressshed some light onto what went wrong.
With his own career stalled, Ferrer became obsessively focused on his wife’s.
Vidor continued, “I believe he collects her salary personally.”
The couple’s son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, was seven when his parents divorced.
Lifestyle, was her habit of doingdetoxes.
According to Hepburn’s son, his mother’s dietary tastes were simple.
“[Her favorite meal was]pastawith tomato sauce.
This was always everywhere, when she was coming home from a trip,” he said.
Her first mission was to Ethiopia, where drought and civil war had left the nation devastated.
Subsequent trips included visits to Turkey, Venezuela, Ecuador, El Salvador, and many other countries.
“I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.”
As Ferrer toldFilm Talk, she was rushed back to California to see her doctor.
“How disappointing,“she said.
“The doctors gave her three months to live,” Hepburn’s longtime partner Robert Wolders toldPeople.
“She acknowledged being afraid of the pain but not being afraid of dying.”
“She was basically on life support,” said Wolders.
Hepburn passed away in her Switzerland home on January 20, 1993.
The necklace is best known for being worn by Audrey Hepburn in 1961’sBreakfast at Tiffany’s.
