Liza Minnelli has shared a health update with fans, revealing she is following her doctor's advice and postponing a scheduled event in NYC.
The legendary star, who turned 80 on March 12, was due to appear at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center on March 23 for a one-night-only event to discuss her recently released memoir, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
However, taking to Instagram on Friday, the Broadway star apologized to fans and announced that she would have to reschedule due to illness.
"Hey Kids, Doctor Piro's orders, I'm sitting Monday out. I'm so sorry," she captioned a photo of herself and her longtime collaborator Michael Feinstein.
Reassuring her followers not to panic, she added: "Nothing serious, I promise. A damn bug that's going around. @michaelfeinsteinsings and I will reschedule. Stay tuned. Our show always goes on. XO."
The show, Liza Minnelli & Michael Feinstein: Stories, Songs, Resilience and All That Jazz, was supposed to feature Liza and Michael discussing defining moments from her life and career, as well as her new book, and share film clips spanning her decades-long career.
Liza's fans were quick to send supportive messages and well wishes, with one commenting: "Hope you have someone taking great care of you. Feel better soon!"
A second said: "Sending healing love & energy!!!" A third added: "Just relax and take it easy @officiallizaminnelli. We'll be praying for you."
© Getty ImagesLiza released her memoir on March 12. The book includes reflections on her intense relationship with her mother, Judy Garland, who welcomed Liza with her second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli, with whom she was married from 1945 to 1951.
Per People, in her book, she writes how by age 13, she "was my mother's caretaker — a nurse, doctor, pharmacologist and psychiatrist rolled into one."
© Getty ImagesDocumented as Judy and Liza's complex relationship has been, however, she brushes it off now, telling the outlet: "Everybody has problems with their mother? It ain't just me and you know it."
Judy's struggles with addiction were also well documented later in her life and following her passing. She was first exposed to drugs when, in her teenage years, while filming The Wizard of Oz, she took an assortment of pills, from barbiturates to amphetamines, to manage her weight, energy, and sleep, under pressure from MGM studio executives.
© Getty ImagesJudy died when Liza was 23 years old, aged 47, from an accidental overdose while in London, on June 22, 1969.
Liza also has had a well-documented struggle with substance abuse, which she also reflects on in her book, now that she is 11 years sober.
© WireImage"If I can laugh, I can get through anything," she said, adding that her life is "amazing" now, and how she hopes her own candor helps others in their own battles with addiction.
"If I fell off the program, I'd go right back in and fight again," she maintained, emphasizing: "Don't give up. There's good out there."
