JULIE ANDREWS’ DESPERATE DREAM TO SING AGAIN!

Mary Poppins legend spending fortune on hunt for medical cure

ROBBED of her sensational singing voice by bungled vocal cord surgery, The Sound of Music legend Julie Andrews is obsessed with getting back her incredible fouroctave range before her final curtain call.

The 85-year-old classically trained soprano has poured millions into research on surgeries that might restore the sound that catapulted her to stardom in the stage version of My Fair Lady.

“Before she dies, Julie wants to sing one of her famous songs,” spills a snitch. “She’s already given tens of millions to medical organizations in the hope they’ll come up with a breakthrough.”

The Mary Poppins icon was crushed when she underwent vocal cord surgery to remove a benign lesion in 1997, and was left with scarred cords.

Since then she can only sing low notes, but middle and high ones are “impossible to reach,” tattles the insider.

She sued the doctors at New York’s Mount Sinai hospital and settled for an undisclosed amount the following year. But the damage caused her to see a shrink to cope with her heartbreak.

“Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow,” Julie admits.

Julie’s continued to work in voiceovers and recently narrated the Bridgerton drama series.

But her friends and family “worry she’s setting herself up for more misery” if new surgery doesn’t pan out, says the source. “It took her years of therapy to get out of the depressive state she was in after the doctor botched what should have been a very minor surgery.”