Liza Minnelli, 79, and late mother Judy Garland 'talk to each other every day'

Liza Minnelli's memoir packs in plenty of zingers and Hollywood gossip. Here's everything we learned from \

When you’re reading Liza Minnelli’s memoir, picture the star lounging on her lipstick-red couch, talking to you like a friend. 

“Kids, Wait Till You Hear This One!” (out now from Grand Central Publishing) reads like a conversation with a close pal because it is one. Longtime friend Michael Feinstein started recording her telling her life story in her living room in 2014. In just over 400 pages, Minnelli opens up about her childhood with mother Judy Garland, her career-making role in “Cabaret” and her journey to sobriety.

While Minnelli, 79, pens darker moments of grief and addiction, her memoir is an overall romp through a life in showbiz, complete with plenty of witty zingers. Readers will delight in the “who’s who” of Hollywood as Minnelli describes wild parties, torrid affairs and theater magic.

From a young age, Minnelli details a thorny relationship with Garland, who abused drugs and alcohol for most of her adult life. Minnelli writes that Garland would remain in bed for days, depressed and heavily drugged. She also “began confiding her fears, resentments and anger” to Minnelli when she was just 5 years old. While Garland and her husband at the time, Sid Luft, burst into “vicious arguments,” Minnelli escaped to the refuge of her father, Vincente Minnelli.

Minnelli recalls several times Garland attempted suicide, including once when she was struggling with postpartum depression and drug abuse. Minnelli felt “responsible” for getting more prescription pills for her mother, but would often swap out pills for Aspirin so Garland wouldn’t overdose. The family was also “flat broke” at this time, and snuck out of hotels before check out so they didn’t have to pay the bill.