Bette Midler On Why She Took Off For A Year:”Everything happened so fast,” she said. “There was a lot of pushing and shoving, people grabbing at me, grabbing at the show I had worked two years with only two weeks off, appearing in a lot of strange places hotel lobbies, bus stops, shopping centers. Two years after I started I was playing The Palace and there was a lot of heavy breathing. I had no temper left and I was snapping at people, the way I always do when I am tired. So I just took off. I went to Paris.” (Charleston Gazette, January 16, 2016)
