"He said, 'Well, let’s see what can we do about it.' I said, 'Well, all these people talk about the Betty Ford Center,' and he said, 'Then you’ll go there.' Just like that. So he took me there." Looking back at the tumultuous time, Minnelli said it was her father she turned to for help. In the 80s she realized she had a problem and sought treatment at the Betty Ford clinic. Throughout her career she has battled with substance abuse. Living in her mother's shadow was not the only thing that would haunt Minnelli. Dammit! Can’t they see?' And she’d throw it down in the trash." She said, 'How dare they? You’re your own woman. "I remember Mama saying, 'Now don’t get upset because of the way they may compare you to me because you’re an entertainer too.' I said, 'Oh, I won’t.' And then she reads something where they compared me to her. "The hardest part was getting to be known as myself as opposed to somebody’s daughter," Minnelli said. Minnelli knew this was what she wanted and through hard work, she would go on to have an illustrious career that earned her four Tonys, two Grammys, an Emmy and an Oscar. "I said, 'Was I good?' And she said, 'Wonderful.'" "When they came to see 'Anne Frank,' my mother came backstage after the show with tears streaming down her face," Minnelli said. By 11 she was rehearsing dance routines with her mother and in high school she made her first stage acting debut when she was cast as the lead in "The Diary of Anne Frank."
Minnelli got her first taste of showbiz when she was three and Garland took her onstage. "I’d take her by the hips and put her on the bed or on the couch. "I’d tickle her when she was really angry or upset about something," Minnelli said. When her mother was in a bad mood, she would do her best to cheer her up. "She was funny, very funny, clear, incredibly intelligent, but more than you could even imagine, and in the moment." she said. Minnelli admitted she was happiest when Garland was happy.
She was one who got angry at people for asking me questions about her." I didn’t know that I had to dodge questions about Mama until people started asking me questions," she explained. The snooping got to Garland, Minnelli revealed in an extremely candid interview that appears in the latest edition of Variety. In fact, she did not even realize her parents were celebrities until later in life, when people began to ask questions. Liza Minnelli was destined to follow "in ma's footsteps." She was just 14 months old when the magazines began to predict her fame and by 1972 she had lived up to those expectations with an award-winning performance in "Cabaret."īeing the daughter of Judy Garland helped boost her career but Minnelli had enough talent to make it on her own.
0 kommentar(er)
