Tom Wargacki (WireImage)Īt that time, AIDS was still almost unknown and deeply stigmatized. Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson leaving the Savoy Hotel in London, UK, on June 1, 1980. In October of that same year, he died in his Los Angeles home. There, he spent time at the Hospital of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he revealed his illness. In July 1985, already very ill, he decided to return to the United States. He lived there for more than a year trying different experimental therapies at the Pasteur Institute, and he was also admitted to the American Hospital in the French capital. Rock Hudson had been diagnosed with AIDS in Paris in early 1984. Gottlieb in a recent interview published in Closer Weekly. “I picked Elizabeth up in my old station wagon, and we managed to get in through a loading dock at the back of the hospital to see him,” recalled Dr. And when the actor was about to die, his friend decided to sneak into the hospital to see him – a secret recently revealed by the actress’s good friend Michael Gottlieb, who was Hudson’s doctor. They traveled together and accompanied one other to events, dances and award ceremonies. How Charlton Heston played a gay man without knowing it in ‘Ben-Hur’
