Liza at the Oscars was a very interesting experience for Liza Minnelli. 

In her upcoming memoir Kids, Wait Til You Hear This, the entertainment industry legend recalled being “ordered” to use a wheelchair while presenting the award for Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards with Lady Gaga, when she had originally expected to be sitting in a director’s chair. 

“I was inexplicably ordered—not even asked—to sit in a wheelchair or not appear at all,” she wrote in an excerpt of her book published by People Feb. 20. “I 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. I will not be treated this way, I said. My co-presenter insisted she would not go on stage with me unless I was in a wheelchair.”

E! News has reached out to reps for Lady Gaga and the Academy.

The now 79-year-old admitted she “was heartbroken” because the wheelchair was lower than the director’s chair would have been and she had difficulties seeing the teleprompter, which caused her to stumble over the intro.