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00:00Gather around, I got a story to tell.
00:03Tony's, a Grammy, an Emmy, even an Oscar, she's done it all.
00:12She has achieved that rare status where only a first name is necessary.
00:17The one and only Liza.
00:19I gotcha!
00:22Oh, you thought I didn't see you now, didn't you?
00:25Born to Hollywood royalty.
00:28Vincente Minelli.
00:29Superstar Judy Garland.
00:31Is that Mama?
00:32She's never gonna pass.
00:35Her fight was to find who she was. She didn't want to be a mother.
00:38Her mother's passing was a catalyst.
00:41A period of incubation.
00:44She found friends and mentors who helped her.
00:48He gave her an entire sense of self.
00:52There was so much expected of her.
00:55She had the thing that you can't teach.
00:57She blossomed.
01:00Everybody wanted to be with Liza.
01:02Everybody wanted her at their parties.
01:05She's hot, she's sexy, she's weird.
01:07And she had that fierceness and so much vulnerability.
01:12How you doing?
01:14Terrific.
01:16Fine.
01:20I feel wonderful about love.
01:24Excuse me.
01:25Because I wanted to be like it was in the songs.
01:30That last husband of hers, I was at the wedding.
01:33Oh my God.
01:34Legendary actress and singer Liza Minelli has checked into rehab.
01:38I was very worried.
01:41How lucky I was.
01:43To have gone through all of the bad stuff that I've gone through
01:47because it prepared me for the rest of my life.
01:52If the public sees Liza as a barrel of sequins and glamour,
01:57they've got it wrong.
01:59She wanted to consume the fullness of life.
02:02I don't think she has any regrets.