Liza Minnelli Says Martin Scorsese Was A Raging Bull In Their Drug-Addled Affair

Liza Minnelli wrote in her new memoir that she and director Martin Scorsese had a “passionate” extramarital affair in the mid-1970s that plummeted into cocaine addiction.

The two got together as they filmed the 1977 movie musical dud “New York, New York” when Minnelli was married to Jack Haley Jr. and Scorsese was married to Julia Cameron.

But it seemed the illicit couple’s other love was coke.

“As we filmed, Marty became a heavier and heavier user of cocaine,” Minnelli wrote in the newly released “Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!” per Page Six. “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, 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?”

Minnelli, the Oscar-winning “Cabaret” star whose mother was Judy Garland, wrote that she and the filmmaker had “volcanic” tempers. Scorsese’s was on display when he confronted her on the street over her affair with dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov ― while she walked with her husband.

“How can you do this to me. How can you do this to me!” Scorsese raged, she wrote, per Entertainment Weekly.

But he was a goodfella to Halston when they went to the fashion designer’s home in a hunt for chemical enhancement.

“‘Give me all the drugs you’ve got,’” Minnelli recalled telling Halston in a Page Six excerpt. The designer provided cocaine, marijuana, Valium and quaaludes.

“Then Marty, who had been waiting around the corner, came up to Halston and kissed him on the cheek. We thanked him and said goodbye.”

Minnelli asked Scorsese ― an eventual 10-time Oscar nominee for best director and one-time winner for “The Departed” ― to direct her in “The Act” for Broadway. But that didn’t work out.

“We needed a theatre director,” Minnelli recalled, according to The Guardian. “Marty had to go, but unfortunately the only person who could fire him was yours truly … So I did what had to be done. It damn near killed me and broke my heart.”

Their relationship eventually fizzled, but Minnelli expressed relief that Scorsese kicked his addictions.

But apparently, he held a grudge.

“Not all of the bad feelings have healed,” she said, according to EW. “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.”

HuffPost has reached out to a Scorsese rep for comment.

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