My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

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.

A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.