Five Things You May Not Know About Liza Minnelli

2023 Author: Vanessa Dutton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 10:30

We have already reported that Liza Minnelli is in a rehabilitation clinic where he is being treated for alcoholism. Her spokesperson has already confirmed this and said that the 69-year-old artist already boasts "excellent progress." However, it is not the first time that the Cabaret star has entered such an establishment. Read about this and other unknown or well-forgotten things here.

Lisa and her addictions

Minelli has a very long history of substance abuse problems. Of course, in the list of her sins, alcoholism was always in the first place, but the celebrity did not go over doping in her younger years. With a strong addiction to drugs or alcohol, she visited Addicted Sufferer Anonymous groups many times and regularly.

“My whole life is a struggle with addiction. I inherited it, and it's terrible. But I always asked for help,”Minelli once told about her fight against alcoholism.

Hollywood roots

Lisa has undoubtedly achieved a lot during all the time that she is on the screen and stage, but many have already forgotten that she is the fruit of the love of one of the most famous Hollywood actresses of the last century, Judy Garland and Vincent Minnelli, the director of such films as "Gigi", "Meet Me in San Luis", "An American in Paris" and others. Lisa's Godfather was Kay Thompson, a vocal teacher, songwriter, and children's writer.

Minelli and charity

Lisa has a long history of interest in AIDS research. She lost many friends due to this terrible disease, including Freddie Mercury, Rock Hudson and others. Lisa also pushed Elizabeth Taylor to charity, who organized the Reiser Foundation and the AIDS Research Foundation. In an interview with Elizabeth's son Michael, she told how terrible things were with the research of the disease and its treatment. AIDS was called "the disease of gay men", doctors and nurses refused to treat such patients, did not approach them in the hospital. These horrific incidents pushed celebrities to founding foundations.

All over again

Minelli was forced to re-learn how to live after being bitten by a mosquito carrying encephalitis in 2000. It's just a miracle that she not only survived, but also got on her feet, because after such diseases, many do not even survive.

“I learned to walk and talk anew. People with my diagnosis rarely go, but it seems to me that I simply could not have been cured,”said the artist in an interview with the Guardian in 2008.

Marriage

Of course, Minelli has not yet managed to surpass her own mother in the number of marriages, but she practically equalized the score. Garland went down the aisle five times, but her daughter is only four, but she has every chance of surpassing her mother in this nomination.

Lisa's first husband was singer Peter Allen, who later stated that he had been gay for a long time. Moreover, rumor attributed to him an affair with the fourth husband of the artist Mark Herron. Well, how can you not wash it down?