LIZA MINNELLI is so distraught over her sister’s cancer battle that friends fear she’ll relapse into boozing and pill-popping!
The “Cabaret” star began a downward spiral after her half sister, Lorna Luft, 60, announced that she was recovering from breast cancer surgery and undergoing chemotherapy, sources say.
“Liza was absolutely devastated when she first got the news Lorna had breast cancer,” said a source close to the 67-year-old Oscar winner.
“IT HIT HER HARD, AND SHE STARTED WORRYING about her own mortality!
“The fear is that Liza will start hitting the bottle.”
The talented entertainer has bounced in and out of rehab since the mid-’80s for addictions to booze and drugs, and she’d fallen off the wagon a few times in the past year, said a friend.