Actor tells Ellen DeGeneres he wanted to be Dame Liz’s eighth husband

Dec 17, 2013 15:53 GMT  ·  By

Perhaps you didn’t know this but, some time before she passed away in 2011, Dame Elizabeth Taylor was good friends with Hollywood badboy turned responsible dad of 2 Colin Farrell. In Colin’s mind, they were actually a bit more than friends.

The handsome actor stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show the other night and, in between talking about Christmas at home and his two adorable boys, he also dished some details of how he came to be friends with Liz.

Check out the video above.

However, the most surprising part of the interview came when Colin admitted that Ms. Taylor was his final great romance, though he stressed that their love story was never consummated.

“That was the beginning of a year and a half or two years of what was a really cool. I just adored her,” he told Ellen of his good, late friend.

“I wanted to be number eight but we ran out of road,” he laughed, joking about how he wouldn’t have hesitated to marry her if this is what she would have wanted.

Colin was present at Elizabeth Taylor’s funerals and even read a poem in her honor, which is said to have moved everybody to tears.