LOS ANGELES , California ( CNN ) -- Elizabeth Taylor checked out of a Los Angeles hospital `` sore , but intact , '' the actress said in an online message posted Friday evening . Elizabeth Taylor posted on her Twitter account that she was grieving for her close friend Michael Jackson . Taylor , 77 , used her Twitter handle , @ DameElizabeth , to tell fans that she was home , just as she did last week to announce she would go into a hospital to `` to complete a test I was in the middle of . '' Her publicist this week denied tabloid rumors that her hospitalization was brought on by her grief over the sudden death of her close friend Michael Jackson in June . Taylor , in her latest tweets , addressed her sadness over Jackson 's death : . `` I 'm home from the hospital sore , but intact . Of course I 'm still grieving for Michael ... I always will . '' `` But as I said before I went into the hospital , ' I am a survivor , ' '' Taylor tweeted . `` I 've had many tragedies in my life , but I guess they have all taught me something . I have to look at it that way . '' `` I have to be stronger and more appreciative of what I do have . '' `` I give love and I 'm surrounded by love ... and I thank God for that . '' Twitter is a social networking site that allows users to update what they are doing using 140 characters or less . Taylor regularly posts short messages to her 116,000 Twitter followers through the account she opened earlier this year at the suggestion of her close friend , author and actress Kathy Ireland , publicist Dick Guttman said . She posted emotional messages earlier this month to counter rumors about how she was dealing with the news of Jackson 's death . `` 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 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 . Taylor , who uses a wheelchair because of scoliosis , or abnormal curving of the spine , gave fans several days advance notice of her hospitalization . `` I wanted you my friends to know that I 'm going into the hospital Wednesday or Thursday to complete a test I was in the middle of , '' she wrote . Taylor said she declined an invitation to speak about Jackson at his public memorial because she `` can not be part of the public hoopla . '' `` I just do n't believe that Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others , '' Taylor tweeted . `` How I feel is between us . Not a public event . '' `` I certainly do n't want to become a part of it , '' she said . `` I love him too much . ... And I can not guarantee that I would be coherent to say a word . ''
`` Sore '' Elizabeth Taylor `` tweets '' about leaving hospital . Taylor says she went to hospital `` to complete a test '' Famed actress says she still mourns loss of close friend Michael Jackson . Tragedies `` have all taught me something , '' Taylor says .