American - Actress | November 21, 1952 -
The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.
Lorna Luft
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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.
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If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
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One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
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Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
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The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
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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.
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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.
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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
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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.
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When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
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