Liza revisits the infinitesimal she presented the Best Picture grant with the "Poker Face" vocalist successful her upcoming book, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
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In the years earlier the show, she battled wellness issues, including surviving a uncommon lawsuit of encephalitis — a life-threatening encephalon corruption — successful the aboriginal 2000s that concisely near her incapable to locomotion and talk. She besides has scoliosis and has undergone aggregate surgeries, including 2 hep replacements and genu surgery.
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At the Oscars, a past 76-year-old Liza appeared successful a wheelchair and looked visibly flustered arsenic she shuffled done her cards.

That's erstwhile Gaga stepped successful to help.

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"I got it," she warmly told Liza, placing a comforting manus connected her back. She past kicked disconnected the presumption by sharing her excitement astir taking the signifier with Liza, whom she has antecedently said was a immense power connected her ain career, and calling her a "show concern legend."

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Liza went adjacent arsenic Gaga stood adjacent by, resting her manus connected Liza's arm. She stumbled done her words arsenic she said: "Throughout the nighttime we’ve seen highlights of the 10 champion ... you cognize ... nominated for champion representation awards…"

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"And then," she said, looking up astatine Gaga for reassurance.

"We're going to archer you who the nominees are," Gaga finished, arsenic Liza exclaimed with relief, "Oh, good."

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Gaga past leaned implicit and was caught connected the microphone whispering, "I got you." Liza replied, "I know, convey you."

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The saccharine speech rapidly went viral, with galore viewers praising Gaga's handling of the concern and her "good heart."

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One idiosyncratic tweeted, “How Lady Gaga was capable to navigate the concern to support the amusement moving and safeguarding Liza’s dignity was masterful and shows what a bully bosom she has." Another said, "It warmed my bosom to spot however considerate and caring Lady Gaga treated the terribly fragile Liza Minelli without robbing her of her dignity."

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Some radical were adjacent successful tears:

“This is similar a acquisition successful however to facilitate older radical portion honouring who they are," 1 much viral tweet read. "What a people enactment by @ladygaga with fable Liza Minnelli. The conferred whispers of ‘I gotcha’ ‘I know’ picked up by the mikes marque it particularly touching."

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Today, People Magazine published excerpts from Liza's caller memoir, wherever she opened up astir the infinitesimal — including a frustrating series of events that happened beforehand.

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According to Liza, she wasn't expected to beryllium successful a wheelchair. She was meant to beryllium successful a director's seat but had been "ordered" to alteration seats earlier the show.

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"I was inexplicably ordered — not adjacent asked — to beryllium successful a wheelchair oregon not look astatine all," she wrote. "I was told it was due to the fact that of my age, and for information reasons, due to the fact that I mightiness gaffe retired of the director’s chair, which was bullshit."

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She recalled saying, "I volition not beryllium treated this way." But successful the end, it seems she had nary choice.

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"I was heartbroken," Liza continued, expressing vexation astatine however the seating affected her view. "I was overmuch little down than I would person been successful the director’s chair. Now I couldn’t easy work the teleprompter supra me. How would you consciousness if you were wheeled out, against your will, to execute successful beforehand of a unrecorded audience, and incapable to spot clearly?"

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Thankfully, she writes, Gaga, "didn’t miss a bushed to play the kindhearted leader for each the satellite to see."

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Gaga's thoughtfulness besides continued off-screen. The publication goes connected to accidental that, "After learning of her distress, Gaga came to her dressing country and asked her: 'Are you okay?'"

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"I looked astatine her and said simply, 'I’m a large fan,'" Liza recalled.

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"I learned this acquisition years agone from Mama and Papa," Liza wrote. "At a infinitesimal of precocious stress, you enactment gracious."

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