Barbra Streisand Says Judy Garland Warned Her About Hollywood: “Don’t Let Them Do to You What They Did to Me”

Barbra Streisand is sharing a warning her late buddy and fellow actress Judy Garland gave to her about Hollywood in her new memoir, My Title is Barbra.

In an excerpt, through Folks journal, Streisand wrote, “Judy and I grew to become mates. We spoke on the cellphone, and she or he got here to one of many uncommon events I gave at my New York house (4 in thirty‑5 years). I believe she arrived late. And I bear in mind her saying one thing I by no means fairly understood: ‘Don’t allow them to do to you what they did to me.’ I ought to have requested her what she meant, however I didn’t wish to seem too nosy.”

Within the 2017 memoir concerning the late actress, Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland, her ex-husband Sid Luft detailed the strain Garland confronted to keep up a sure weight and look, together with studio executives telling her she needed to watch her determine. Luft, who died earlier than the e-book was revealed, stated The Wizard of Oz star used medicine to manage. Garland died in 1969 of an unintentional barbiturate overdose at age 47.

“What a tragedy . . . and such a loss. She was a rare expertise,” Streisand wrote in her e-book.

Streisand additionally regarded again at her early profession within the trade and defined how “individuals have been searching for some type of rivalry between us [Streisand and Gardland]. And after they couldn’t discover something, they made it up.” Then in 1963, Streisand made an look on an episode of Garland’s CBS present The Judy Garland Present.

“I discovered Judy to be fully beneficiant. We sang a medley of songs, taking turns, and she or he wasn’t simply centered on herself. She watched me and responded to me. She would attain out and brush again a strand of my hair, like a mom,” Streisand stated of Garland in her memoir. “And Judy’s personal daughter, Liza Minnelli, says that her mom’s first response on listening to me sing was to say, ‘I’m by no means going to open my mouth once more.’ She was like that, very self‑deprecating. And deeply weak.”

My Title is Barbra, which options reflections on her profession and previous relationships, hit bookshelves on Tuesday.