Liza Minnelli became once ‘sabotaged’ at Oscars 2022, longtime friend claims

Liza Minnelli’s longtime friend Michael Feinstein claims the Broadway icon became once “sabotaged” on the Oscars 2022 by being “compelled” to state a wheelchair that sparked worry about the disclose of her effectively being.

At some point soon of the March 27 are living broadcast, Minnelli, 76, took the stage with Lady Gaga to recent the Supreme Image award. Moreover sitting in a wheelchair, she also critically flubbed a few of her teleprompter lines.

Feinstein, 65, alleged thru Sirius XM’s “Jess Cagle Cowl” on Tuesday that the “Cabaret” star had “handiest agreed to appear on the Oscars if she would possibly well be in the director’s chair, ’cause she’s been having lend a hand anxiousness.”

The singer claimed Minnelli had expressed she desired to “search for appropriate” and didn’t select on folk to “scare” about her, but honest five minutes sooner than she became once web say to appear in front of the audience, a stage manager told her she had to state a wheelchair.

“I squawk they were all shaken up because of the every part that had took plan earlier,” Feinstein said, referencing the 2d Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, alternatively, there were a total lot of awards handed out between the time the ugly incident passed off and Minnelli took the stage.

Feinstein claimed to Cagle, 56, that his friend pleaded, “No, I could well now no longer be considered in a wheelchair in front of all americans. I will now no longer cease this. I refused to cease this.”

The pianist, who said he became once recent leisurely the curtain on the time, said he told Minnelli, “What cease you wanna cease?”

He then alleged Minnelli spoke back, “I’ll cease it,” but became once “so shaken that she became once discombobulated.”

“She became once nervous,” Feinstein claimed. “I mean, and it made her search for appreciate she became once out of it. And she became once honest so shaken up that it became once.

“Can you imagine being compelled to be considered by millions of oldsters the sort you don’t wanna be considered? That’s what took plan to her.”

Feinstein said Minnelli became once “very disillusioned” by what passed off and shared she is “truly doing effectively” and “it’s a shame that it became out that manner.”

A earn for the Academy Awards declined to comment. Minnelli’s reps would possibly well also now no longer valid now be reached for comment.

Alternatively, Minnelli’s outmoded publicist Scott Gorenstein, who helped originate the Oscars 2022 2d happen, beforehand told The Submit, “Liza resides her finest lifestyles, now no longer having to be in front of the cameras.

“She’s been below mountainous tension her total lifestyles to trace for audiences. The past couple of years bear allowed her to relax and revel in one other segment of her lifestyles.”

Gorenstein famed that Minnelli has “had some effectively being problems” — with out specifying what they were — but concluded, “Liza is a memoir and she or he deserves to be on the Academy Awards, so I save it in front of her folk and immediate that she cease it.”