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. – Lorna Luft
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. – Lorna Luft
Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn’t know her. – Lorna Luft
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. – Lorna Luft
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. – Lorna Luft
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. – Lorna Luft
My mother wasn’t rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. – Lorna Luft
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. – Lorna Luft
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it’s also very addictive. – Lorna Luft
Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. – Lorna Luft
The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck. – Lorna Luft
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
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. – Lorna Luft
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. – Lorna Luft
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her. – Lorna Luft