SHORT TAKES : Fisher Says He Fears Ex-Wife Taylor Can’t Kick Her Demons

Entertainer Eddie Fisher says ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor has severe problems and he’s “fearful for her.”

In a television interview with Geraldo Rivera broadcast Wednesday, Fisher said Taylor’s problem with drugs is just as bad as when they were married in the early 1960s.

“I was using . . . hardly anything when I was with Elizabeth,” he said of his own 37-year addiction to drugs. “I was her nurse for all those years and her problem was tremendous. . . . Whatever her problem was in 1960, it was the same in 1990.”

Fisher said his ex-wife’s problems are “very, very severe and I feel very fearful for her today.”

Taylor’s publicist, Chen Sam, said: “There’s no comment on what the man’s saying. Miss Taylor is doing very well. She’s in perfect health.”

Fisher said he stopped using drugs after being treated at the Betty Ford clinic six months ago.

Taylor, who acknowledged a 35-year addiction to sleeping pills and pain killers in 1983, has been treated for alcohol and drug abuse.

Taylor and Fisher married in May, 1959. She left him and married Richard Burton in May, 1964.