Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
A star needs all the rest she can get.
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
