{"id":604404,"date":"2026-02-20T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/604404\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:29:11","slug":"liza-minnelli-claims-oscars-forced-her-to-use-wheelchair-with-lady-gaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/604404\/","title":{"rendered":"Liza Minnelli Claims Oscars Forced Her to Use Wheelchair With Lady Gaga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLiza Minnelli<\/a> lashes out at the Oscars<\/a> in her new memoir, \u201cKids, Wait Till You Hear This!\u201d The \u201cCabaret\u201d icon presented the Academy Award for best picture alongside Lady Gaga<\/a> at the 2022 Oscars, but Minnelli appeared somewhat disoriented on stage and stumbled over her words. Gaga notably comforted Minnelli in the moment by telling her, \u201cI got you.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMinnelli was in a wheelchair at the time, which she alleges in her book was mandated by the Academy. She had expected to be seated in a director\u2019s chair where she could more easily see the teleprompter but plans changed at the last minute. The Academy reportedly pivoted to a wheelchair to prioritize Minnelli\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was inexplicably ordered \u2014 not even asked \u2014 to sit in a wheelchair or not appear at all,\u201d Minnelli writes. \u201cI was told it was because of my age, and for safety reasons, because I might slip out of the director\u2019s chair, which was bullshit. I will not be treated this way, I said. I was heartbroken. I was much lower down than I would have been in the director\u2019s chair. Now I couldn\u2019t easily read the teleprompter above me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHow would you feel if you were wheeled out, against your will, to perform in front of a live audience, and unable to see clearly?\u201d Minnelli continues. \u201cSo when I stumbled over a few words, Gaga, who was at my side, didn\u2019t miss a beat to play the kindhearted hero for all the world to see. \u2018I got you,\u2019 she said, leaning down over me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety has reached out to representatives for the Academy for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tMinnelli notes in her memoir that Gaga came to her dressing room when she heard about Minnelli\u2019s distress over being put in a wheelchair. Gaga asked, \u201cAre you okay?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI looked at her and said simply, \u2018I\u2019m a big fan,’\u201d Minnelli writes. \u201cI learned this lesson years ago from Mama and Papa. At a moment of high stress, you stay gracious. The winner for best picture that year was \u2018CODA.\u2019 I loved the irony of the title for me. Writing my memoir would be my coda, my truth. There\u2019s always a rainbow \u2014 if you know where to look for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMinnelli\u2019s \u201cKids, Wait Till You Hear This!\u201d publishes on March 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liza Minnelli lashes out at the Oscars in her new memoir, \u201cKids, Wait Till You Hear This!\u201d The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":604405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,49244,187947,15801,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-604404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-lady-gaga","10":"tag-liza-minnelli","11":"tag-oscars","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116105325333848413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}