Somewhere over the rainbow, you’ll findLiza Minnellithrowing a bit of shade into the Oscar race.
Still, she said: “I hope [Zellweger] had a good time making it.”
“I knew, and I told my father [Vincente Minnelli].
He said, ‘Well, let’s see what can we do about it.’
So he took me there,” she said of her decision to seek treatment.
She added that she struggled to establish herself as an individual artist despite coming from Hollywood royalty.
“The hardest part was getting to be known as myself as opposed to somebody’s daughter.
“I said, ‘Oh, I won’t.’
And then she reads something where they compared me to her.
She said, ‘How dare they?
You’re your own woman.
Can’t they see?’
And she’d throw it down in the trash.
She was wonderful and so overprotective.
She tried saving us from any of the stuff that other people said, except the great stuff.”
