To see this woman in the last few years of her life was to see a shadow.

Old Hollywood

To see this woman in the last few years of her life was to see a shadow.

A pasty shadow who looked as if she would crumble at any time. I guess in a way she was the original coke mom but her drug of choice was heroin.

Introduced to her by some musicians she met at a recording studio they showed her what to do and how to inject it. One of them also became her lover and that would have been a scandal still reverberating if it had been discovered at the time.

For her there could be no crossing any racial lines like that.

The last year or two of her life the forever A+ lister would wear long sleeves to cover the tracks on her arm.

Is it any wonder her kids had such huge addiction problems?

Judy Garland

Kids: Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, Joey Luft