![]() But he was only a king when he was on stage.’Ĭlose: Michael Jackson, who attended Liza's wedding to Gest, was 'used and abused from the time he was born' according to her He was one of the best performers we’ve ever had. ‘In the end, the scorn, the cruelty, the vicious meanness - these are the things that took his life. Liza thinks she knows what killed her friend. I knew all his girlfriends including Lisa Marie who became his wife.’ She said she wasn’t ready to commit right now. So I said: “Let’s rehearse,” and that’s what we did. I asked him what he was going to say and he didn’t know. He came to show me the ring he’d bought for her. ‘I remember he was going with this girl and he was so in love with her. But then other people jumped on the bandwagon.’ ‘What everyone forgets is that, when kids stayed at Neverland, their parents came, too. “It is,” I replied, “and that’s why you need to involve your lawyer.” But he wouldn’t. ‘When he’d finished his story, I remember pausing and then saying: “Michael, maybe you should tell your lawyer about this.” He said: “But it’s insane.” So I repeated my advice. 'Michal Jackson was a supremely gifted human being, but he didn't survive because he'd never been taught the rules of the game' “Now let’s go get a hamburger.” Forget anything you’ve read. ‘One day, I said to her: “Mama, why are you always so sad when you sing Over The Rainbow?” She looked at me. Unlike her mother Judy Garland, who died in London in 1969, awash with booze and pills, aged 47 - and about whom she is ‘bored, bored, bored’ of talking.īut while we’re - briefly - on the subject, she does let slip a sweet, rather revealing tale about Judy.Īs a child, she’d wait in the wings at Garland’s concerts, a trembling cup of tea in her hand to deliver to her mother when the final curtain fell. ‘I’ve been down,’ she says, at one point, ‘but I’ve never been out.’ Four marriages, two hip replacements, one new knee, a near-fatal bout of viral encephalitis, Liza has survived them all. ‘The more we educate young people about the terrible things that happened,’ says Liza, ‘the less likely they could ever happen again.’Īt 65, the woman is unstoppable. She then flew to London (via Korea) to perform at the White Rose Ball this Sunday in aid of the Holocaust Centre in Nottingham. ‘We’ve known each other since we were five. Ten days ago, she left New York with her lifelong friend Rock (son of Yul) Brynner for Vladivostok where he was tracing his lineage. I don’t know whether I’m coming or going.’ ‘Listen honey, I’m not jet-lagged,’ she says, pulling on an ever-present Marlboro Lite. If she will forgive the observation, she looks like death warmed up. She’s wearing silver, high-heeled pixie boots, black velvet trousers and a black hoodie with white skull-and-cross-bones appliquéd up each sleeve, the last thing, apparently, in current New York chic. The fathomless black eyes are the only sign of animation in a face the colour of parchment. Liza Minnelli cuts a tiny figure curled into an oversized chair in her riverside hotel suite. Unstoppable: Liza Minnelli has survived four marriages, two hip replacements, one new knee, and a near-fatal bout of encephalitis
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