Liza Minnelli gives rare interview about her childhood with mum Judy Garland


Liza Minnelli has opened up about her childhood with mother Judy Garland, saying while her father treated her “like a princess” her mother was the “most challenging” part.

Lisa78, sat down for the rare interview with friend Michael Feinstein for Interview Magazine.

“The most glamorous was my father, and the most challenging was my mother,” she said.

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Liza Minnelli has opened up about her childhood with mother Judy Garland. (Getty)

Liza said her mother “was strict, and it depended on what mood she was in or whether she was working too hard and they were pushing her too much.”

“Or whether she didn’t like who she was married to at the time,” she continued.

“Stuff like that. Every kid goes through that. But my father, he treated me like a princess.”

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Liza, 78, sat down for the rare interview about her family with friend Michael Feinstein. (Fairfax)

Liza’s father was famed director Vincente Minnelli who directed Garland in Meet Me in St Louisreleased in 1944.

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The couple married in 1945, welcoming their daughter in 1946.

They divorced in 1951 after six years of marriage. He was the second of Garland’s five husbands.

Garland famously battled addiction and died in 1969 from a reported accidental overdose of sleeping pills.

Liza’s father was famed director Vincente Minnelli. (Fairfax)

Her struggle with addiction began during her days as a child star including her star turn in The Wizard of Oz.

Liza said her mother was always quick to move on from conflict with her.

“Ten minutes later, she’d come in and say: ‘Let me give you a hug.’ She was kind of a normal mother in an exceptionally talented body,” Liza said.

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Liza spoke of accompanying her parents to their film sets, joking that she would have starved as a little girl had she not learned how to order room service.

She also met “fascinating” people through Garland.

Of her parent’s divorce, Liza said she never hoped they’d reunite as they “didn’t really like each other so it wasn’t fun to be around them.”

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Liza with Lady Gaga at the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theater in 2022. (Getty)

Liza became “freer” from her mother after her third marriage to Sid Luft and the arrival of their two children Lorna and Joey.

“Everyone took care of them because they were nine and seven years younger than I was, so I got to stay with my dad a little bit more,” she said.

“But I loved my mum. She was funny.”

Liza went on to forge her own impressive career on stage and screen.

She is reportedly working on her memoir with writers Heidi Evans and Josh Getlin, set for publication in 2026.

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