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

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

I did my first Broadway show when I was nineteen years old - and to be able to say that I am still working with the incredible talents of all of the creative teams that I have been able to work with - that's so special to me.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

Dinah had all the class.

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.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.