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Morning Honey
Morning Honey
Life was often far from somewhere over the rainbow for Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland. Before dying of a drug overdose at 47 in 1969, the Hollywood legend struggled with addictions to drugs, booze and abusive men while her daughters, Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft, looked on helplessly. The sisters offered a gut-wrenching peek into Garland’s life, revealing a side of the deeply troubled superstar who only they knew — as a loving, devoted mother. “People like to play her as a tragic figure but she wasn’t. She was funny and warm and incredibly generous,” Luft, 71, insisted. Minelli, 77, added, “Sh…