Liza Minnelli has announced that she will release a memoir after being “mad as hell” that previous documentaries on her life “didn’t get it right”. The 78-year-old actor and singer has signed a deal with Grand Central Publishing and will release the book in spring 2026. She wrote the memoir with Pulitzer Prize winner Heidi Evans and Los Angeles Times alum Josh Getlin, and will offer a look through her childhood, career, love life, rise to fame, and struggles with substance abuse.
“Since I was old enough to put pencil to paper, people asked me to write books about my career, my life, my loves, my family,” Minnelli told People magazine . “‘Absolutely not. Tell it when I’m gone’ was my philosophy.
So, why did I change my mind?” Minnelli went on to add that documentaries on her life and career “didn’t get it right” and a “series of unfortunate events”, like a “sabotaged appearance at the Oscars” and “a film with twisted half-truths”, changed her mind. “Finally, I was mad as hell. Over dinner one night, I decided, it’s my own d*** story, I’m going to share it with you because of all the love you’ve given me,” she said.
Minnelli’s longtime friend and collaborator, singer Michael Feinstein, said on The Jess Cagle Show after Minnelli’s appearance at the Oscars that she was brought on stage in a wheelchair against her wishes. “She was sabotaged,” said Feinstein. “She said, ‘I don’t want people to see me limping out ther.