Liza Minnelli says ‘fuming’ mom Judy Garland tried to kick her offstage during joint performance

Liza Minnelli has claimed that her mother, Judy Garland, erstwhile angrily asked for her to beryllium taken disconnected nan “f***ing stage” during their capacity together.

In her forthcoming memoir, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This, nan 79-year-old character wrote astir her emergence to fame and analyzable narration pinch her precocious mother, who died from an accidental overdose successful 1969 astatine nan property of 47.

Minnelli, besides nan girl of nan precocious shape head Vincente Minnelli, recalled that erstwhile she began her profession arsenic an character astatine nan property of 18, she had nan opportunity to singing pinch her mother astatine nan London Palladium.

“After my first opus [on opening night] I heard her shout, ‘Yeah, baby! Go get ’em!’ After nan 2nd song, different ‘Yeah!’ but not rather arsenic strong,” she wrote successful nan excerpt of her memoir, obtained by People. “By nan 3rd song, let’s conscionable opportunity she was losing enthusiasm.”

“I heard her whispering to our producer, Harold Davison: ‘Harold, get her disconnected my f****ing stage!’ I conscionable kept singing to chaotic applause arsenic Mama fumed. I had a stunning realization. I had begun nan nighttime arsenic Mama’s daughter. Now, I was onstage pinch Judy Garland.”

The brace had performed together before. In 1963, she appeared connected The Judy Garland Show, where she and Garland did their celebrated duet of “Together (Wherever We Go).” They often did different duets connected nan show successful nan early 1960s, including “We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together/The Best Is Yet to Come.”

Minnelli has antecedently spoken astir nan challenges of increasing up pinch celebrated parents, calling her begetter nan “most glamorous” portion of her puerility and her mother nan “most challenging,” during a speech published pinch Interview Magazine successful 2024.

“I bounced backmost and distant because they were divorced, but I loved them some truthful much,” she explained. “My mother was fascinating because she knew truthful galore fascinating group who would travel over. And my begetter utilized to fto maine spell to nan group and watch him direct. I’d spell to nan creation room wherever they choreographed worldly and study it. I’d watch group for illustration Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly.”

According to Minnelli, her mother had a different attack to parenting than her father. “My mother was strict, and it depended connected what temper she was successful aliases whether she was moving excessively difficult and they were pushing her excessively much.”

“Or whether she didn’t for illustration who she was joined to astatine nan time. Stuff for illustration that. Every kid goes done that,” she explained.

In her caller memoir, nan Cabaret star disclosed what it was for illustration to beryllium a caregiver for her mother, who had a terrible addiction to medicine drugs and alcohol.

“At 13, I was my mother’s caretaker — a nurse, doctor, pharmacologist, and psychiatrist rolled into one,” she wrote. “I mislaid count of nan times I called doctors to opportunity she’d tally retired of pills. I’d say: ‘I’m a kid! Please capable my mama’s prescription!’”