Instead, she alleges in her memoir that she was forced to sit in a wheelchair.
In an excerpt of her upcoming memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! shared by People on Friday, Minnelli claims that the decision caused her to misread the teleprompter and trip over her words.
“I was inexplicably ordered — not even asked — to sit in a wheelchair or not appear at all,” Minnelli writes. “I was told it was because of my age, and for safety reasons, because I might slip out of the director’s 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’s chair. Now I…
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