Another service? menevit 90 “I think today we would say he was bipolar, although that word is bandied about so often. He had mental problems and he should have been on therapy. If I’d met him today I would know so much more, but I didn’t. I had no experience of that sort of life but I learnt very quickly.” Ekland had been discovered by a talent scout for 20th Century Fox and signed to a seven-picture deal. “I was working in London with Richard Attenborough and he [Sellers] was working in LA on a movie. It was Easter 1964, March, and he said, ‘Why don’t you take one day off and come over.’ I asked and they said no and he said, ‘I will fix everything, just take your passport.’ He had a car pick me up at the studio telling me I’d be back on Monday so I left with my handbag and I never went back. Fox sued me and put me on suspension for two years so I couldn’t work and then I lost my contract. He made sure I stayed with him. He hadn’t fixed anything for me; he just made sure I didn’t go back.
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