Liza Minnelli and Lady Gaga at the 2022 Oscars

23 Feb – Liza Minnelli recently revealed that she was actually against using a wheelchair to present an award at the 2022 Academy Awards.

Calling out the Oscars team for forcing her to use the wheelchair instead of the originally planned director's seat for her safety, she expressed in her new memoir, "Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!" that she was inexplicably ordered to sit in a wheelchair or not appear at all.

"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 bulls***. I will not be treated this way, I said. I was heartbroken," she wrote.

Minnelli also stated that due to the fact that she was much lower down than she would have been in the director's chair, it made it difficult for her to read the teleprompter above her.

Liza Minnelli said she couldn't read the teleprompter as she was lower

"How would you feel if you were wheeled out, against your will, to perform in front of a live audience, and unable to see clearly?" Minnelli continues. "So when I stumbled over a few words, Gaga, who was at my side, didn't miss a beat to play the kind-hearted hero for all the world to see. 'I got you,' she said, leaning down over me."

No representative from the Academy has made a comment at the time of writing.

The new memoir is set to be released on 10 March.

Liza Minnelli was unamused that she was wheeled onto the stage