‘The best-kept secret about Audrey Hepburn is that she was so sad’
Unseen footage in new documentary reveals the private pain that lay behind a public image that came to epitomise grace and beauty
by Nosheen Iqbal
Nov 15, 2020
3 minutes
She was once the most publicly adored woman in the world, yet felt a deep lack of love in her private life. Now a new film about Audrey Hepburn, the first made with the consent of her family, reveals her extraordinary sadness and pain as she candidly discusses the traumas inflicted by her father, her marriages and her miscarriages.
, a documentary by 26-year-old British film-maker Helena Coan, comes from the producers of the Bafta-nominated about the life of fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and is packed with revelations about one of the most enduring of all
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