My Judy Garland Life by Susie Boyt

Author:Susie Boyt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2009-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

I had listened, braced, to Mayo Simon speak, and much of it was hard to hear. I walked downtown for twenty blocks taking deep breaths, thinking, thinking. That someone who hated you so much he banned all mention of your name in his house for several years can speak about you now with this degree of warmth and admiration and respect after everything, well, I have heard worse.

When people who knew Judy came to the end of the road with her their experiences were often very similar. A strange sort of exasperation mixed with claustrophobia spread over everything. A nervous and physical exhaustion, financial and/or professional disarray, the bitterness of defeat, lawsuits, chaos and the dread of being caught up in Garland’s own bad ending usually characterised the splits. The all-out quality that enabled her to captivate 108,000 people in one night in Boston, and have each one feel she was singing just to him or her alone, when directed at one individual was a pretty powerful proposition. And her disciples did not abandon her lightly. ‘People put themselves through the most outlandish contortions, they left jobs, broke friendships, deserted families for this woman.’ The ruin she could wreak on a person was no joke.

In the early days of songwriter John Meyer’s romance with Judy Garland, an ex-beau of hers, Tim Bass, dropped off a manila envelope of printed matter at Meyer’s mother’s apartment. This included:

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