Liz Taylor hospitalization not due to MJ, publicist says

By Alan Duke
CNN
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) - Elizabeth Taylor, contrary to a New York tabloid report, was not hospitalized because of her grief over her friend Michael Jackson's death, according to her publicist.

Taylor, 77, was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital last week for scheduled testing, which the legendary actress herself announced in an online message posted on Twitter.com.

"Although my grief over Michael could not be any deeper, I am not on suicide watch as some of the cheaper 'rags' would have you believe," Taylor tweeted on July 5.

A New York Post column published Tuesday quoted an unidentified source saying she was hospitalized because the "heart's gone out of her" after Jackson's death last month.

Taylor - who uses a wheelchair because of scoliosis, or abnormal curving of the spine - gave fans several days advance notice of her hospitalization through her Twitter.com account - DameElizabeth.