Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment. |
Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends. |
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive. |
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. |
Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her. |
My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition. |
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. |
The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck. |
It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started. |
When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent. |
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her. |
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman. |
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows. |
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. |
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. |
Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. |
To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. |
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. |
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody. |
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. |