Bette Midler On Taking A Year Off In 1974: “WHERE WAS I? I was sitting around getting very chubby for a year. But I was having the time of my life. I was bruised and battered and I needed a rest. So I went to Paris, France, to become very elegant and I failed mi-ser-a-bly. You know, I thought I spoke French. Then I got there and I realized I didn’t. But I ate my brains out.” (Emporia Gazette, April 12, 1975)
