Her drinking only got worse after her mother/manager died and she decided to go to the Mayo Clinic to detox

Old Hollywood Blind Item:

This A-list triple threat (actress, singer, dancer) and Oscar winner who made her best films with another A-list triple threat repeatedly claimed in her memoirs that she never touched a drop of alcohol because of her religious views.

Ask anyone who worked with her and they would tell you she could drink anybody under the table.

Her drinking only got worse after her mother/manager died and she decided to go to the Mayo Clinic to detox.

Ginger Rogers “Kitty Foyle” (Fred Astaire) (Christian Scientist)

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