“Our love affair had more layers than a lasagne,” Minelli wrote in her memoir.
star detailed how she “quickly got swept up in a passionate romance” with the Oscar-winning director during the filming of their 1977 musical drama NMinnelli and Scorsese began a cocaine-fueled affair while filming"New York, New York.
"The affair “was the worst-kept secret on the set,” Minnelli, now 79, wrote in her memoir, which was released on Tuesday., the French term for a passionate relationship that becomes a self-destructive obsession,” Minnelli wrote. “The relationship becomes a powerful, hypnotic drug in every way.” But it wasn’t just the relationship that was intoxicating; the pair soon began regularly doing cocaine both on- and off-set. “Marty became a heavier and heavier user of cocaine,” she wrote. “It seemed that it was no longer recreational for either of us. It was day and night. On the set, in between takes, and when we went out in the evening. We were constant companions, and I was right there beside him. Line by line.” Both Scorsese and Minnelli were married at the time of their affair. They each had a divorce within two years.“Marty claimed the drug helped his creative juices. Sure it did. Or is that just one more fabulous lie you tell yourself when you’re in the grip of substance use?” she added.flopped both critically and commercially, and racked up an additional $2 million in costs during filming. It recouped just $16.4 million on its increased budget of $9 million. Both Scorsese, now 83, and Minnelli were married at the time—Scorsese to writer Julia Cameron, who divorced him that year, and Minnelli to Jack Haley Jr., whose father played the Tin Man in“We were on a runaway train,” Minnelli wrote. “Nothing good could come of it.” Minnelli said she fell for Scorsese because of his on-set authority."He was a diabolically handsome man who shared my love for film. I was a director's daughter who respected Marty's role and authority."Minnelli later detailed a run-in with thedirector in Greenwich Village, in which Scorsese publicly berated her—with her husband present—because he had learned that she was having another affair with Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.“Jack and I quickly walked away, trying to laugh it off. It would be impossible to forget. Marty was incensed. I’d been outed. Mikhail got caught up in a messy situation. And Jack now had a good reason for us to part,” Minelli explained.Minnelli continued to abuse drugs until 2015, even after several collapses in her home and on the street in New York City.Soon after the film wrapped, Minnelli demanded that Scorsese direct her new Broadway musical,“He was in over his head. Our out-of-town reviews were scathing,” Minnelli wrote. Minnelli knew she had to can her lover. “I did what had to be done. It damn near killed me and broke my heart,” she wrote. Minnelli wrote that De Niro's tough love toward Scorsese during his hospital stint drove them to create the acclaimed film"Raging Bull."Minnelli discovered that Scorsese had been thoroughly “exhausted,” and a “steady diet of hostility and substances certainly wasn’t helping matters.” “As it turns out, his life was in jeopardy, and he is now able to admit that he ended up in the hospital cheating death,” she continued. “He kicked drugs and booze out of his life and became one of America’s most beloved filmmakers.” Nearly 40 years later, Minnelli bumped into the director backstage at the Academy Awards, but revealed that no love had been lost. “Not all of the bad feelings have healed,” she wrote. “Years later, I saw Marty at the Oscars ceremony in 2014 and walked up to say hello. Unfortunately, he turned away from me. Very sad.”
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