Liza Minnelli Takes a Shot at Lady Gaga for Playing ‘the Kindhearted Hero’ During Oscars in New Memoir

Cabaret star Liza Minnelli is still nursing a grudge against Lady Gaga over a perceived diss at the 2022 Academy Awards, when the two divas presented the Best Picture award together.

The 80-year-old Oscar winner alleges that Gaga and the Academy forced her to appear onstage in a wheelchair.

“I was inexplicably ordered — not even asked — to sit in a wheelchair or not appear at all,” Minnelli claims in her upcoming memoir, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, per People.

She says she’d proposed using a director’s chair but “was told it was because of my age, and for safety reasons, because I might slip out of the director’s chair, which was bulls**t.”

Minnelli says sitting in the wheelchair meant she was too low to read the teleprompter. “So when I stumbled over a few words, Gaga, who was at my side, didn’t miss a beat to play the kindhearted hero for all the world to see,” she writes sarcastically. “‘I got you,’ she said, leaning down over me.”

Four years later, the Liza With a Z star is still fuming over what she perceives as Gaga’s condescending treatment, which has left the “Abracadabra” singer, 39, feeling devastated.

“She idolizes Liza and swears she never meant to upset her!” an insider says. “But Liza can’t let it go! She felt so exposed and humiliated and she blames Gaga as much as the organizers of the Oscars.”

“It has been especially hard to get past it because it was her last night out in public — in some ways it feels like it soured her whole legacy, that’s how hard she’s taken it.”

The insider says the EGOT winner keeps reliving the episode over and over. “It’s haunting her! Liza is hypersensitive and she’s still very triggered by this whole thing.”

According to our sources, a public apology from Gaga might help but even the psychic wound could be too deep for that.

“Poor Gaga has an uphill battle ahead of her if she really wants to fix this,” says the source.