Bette Midler: “I don’t think it was divine retribution. It was insane behavior. It was completely out-to-lunch behavior. There was so much drug use and promis…, promis…, how do you say that word?” (“Promiscuity.”) “That word. There was so much of that. I mean, you weren’t there. I was there. Nobody said, ‘Hey, wait a second. Hold on here. Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!’ It was terrible. I haven’t got anybody left. I haven’t got a single soul left from those days. All gone. I’ll tell you something. If I could take it back, I would. If I could change it … if I could go back and reverse everything, I would. It wasn’t worth it.” — (Midler to BuzzWeekly, April 4-10, 1997.)
