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... →
Lorna Luft
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
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.
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the... →
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.