A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.