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

The two got together while filming the failed 1977 musical film “New York, New York” when Minnelli was married to Jack Haley Jr. and Scorsese was married to Julia Cameron.

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

“While we were filming, Marty became an increasing user of cocaine,” Minnelli wrote in the newly released “Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!” per page six. “It seemed like it wasn’t a recreational thing for either of us anymore. It was day and night. On set, between takes, and when we went out at night.”

“We were constant companions and I was right next to him. Line by line, Marty claimed that the drug helped his creativity. Of course it did. Or is it just one more fabulous lie you tell yourself when you’re in the grip of substance abuse?”

Martin Scorsese, Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro in the
Martin Scorsese, Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro at the premiere of “New York, New York” in June 1977.

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

“How can you do this to me? How can you do this to me!” Scorsese was enraged, he wrote, according to Entertainment Weekly.

But he was a good friend to Halston when they went to the fashion designer’s house looking for chemical enhancements.

“’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, walked up to Halston and kissed him on the cheek. We thanked him and said goodbye.”

Minnelli and Scorsese arrived at Studio 54 after the
Minnelli and Scorsese arrived at Studio 54 after the release of “New York, New York” in 1977.

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Minnelli asked Scorsese, ultimately a ten-time Oscar nominee for best director and the only winner for “The Departed,” to direct her in “The Act” for Broadway. But that didn’t work.

“We needed a theater 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 almost killed me and broke my heart.”

Their relationship ultimately failed, but Minnelli expressed relief that Scorsese kicked his addictions.

But apparently he held a grudge against him.

“Not all the bad feelings have healed,” he said, according to EW. “Years later, I saw Marty at the Oscars in 2014 and walked up to say hello. Unfortunately, he walked away from me. Very sad.”

News has contacted a representative for Scorsese for comment.

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