Cher’s mother, Georgia Holt, a singer and actress, has died. She was 96 years old.
“Mom’s Gone” Cher, 76, wrote on Twitter on Saturday evening. In September, Cher shared that Holt had “been sick from time to time.”
“She just got out of (the hospital),” the singer added. “She had pneumonia. She’s better.” Cher gave no further details on Saturday, including a cause or exact date of death.
USA TODAY has reached out to a representative for Cher for more details.
In 2013, Holt was the subject of an hour-long Lifetime documentary, “Dear Mom, Love Cher,” which explored family history in interviews with the matriarch, daughters Cher and Georganne LaPiere. and Cher’s children, Chaz Bono and Elijah Blue Allman, known professionally. like P. Exeter Blue.
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“It’s a good Mother’s Day special, but it’s not Hallmark,” Cher said of the documentary at the time.
The project began when Holt discovered the tapes for an unreleased album she recorded in 1980 with Elvis Presley’s band. Determined to help Holt achieve an unrealized goal, Cher had the tapes remastered, then filmed her mother singing and chatting. This resulted in a 16-minute video that turned out to be a “little present for his 86th birthday”. It then became a more revealing look at an unorthodox clan.
The singer-songwriter, actor, producer and model was best known for his roles in ‘The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet’ in 1955. as well as 1956’s “I Love Lucy” and “Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre”. She also starred in films such as 1950s “Watch the Birdie” and “A Life of Her Own”, 1951’s “Father’s Little Dividend” and “Grounds for Marriage” and 1952’s “Lovely to Look At”.
In 2013, Holt released her debut album “Honky Tonk Woman”, which she recorded in the 80s.
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Holt was born June 9, 1926, in rural Arkansas to 13-year-old Lynda Inez Gulley and 20-year-old Roy Malloy Crouch. First dabbling in performance, Holt sang in Oklahoma saloons, then sought fame in Hollywood as a singer and actress.
She was also a multifaceted and complicated woman.
After marrying a truck driver named John Sarkisian, Holt considered having an abortion. The two divorced shortly after Cher’s birth. Struggling financially, Holt briefly placed Cher in a Catholic orphanage, where nuns urged her to give up the baby for adoption.
“I heard the abortion story when I was a teenager,” Cher said in 2013’s “Dear Mom.” and she didn’t want to talk about it. I said, ‘Mom, why didn’t you come and get me?’ She said: “I didn’t have the power. I had no money or job, and the church was so strong. I was going to see you every day and you were crying. You do not know. how was it. It was more difficult for women back then.”
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Holt was previously married to Gilbert Hartmann LaPiere, Hamilton Tatum Holt Jr., John Paul Sarkisian, Joseph Harper Collins, Eunice John Southall and Chris Alcaide.
She is survived by her daughters Cher and Georganne LaPiere, and her grandchildren Chaz Bono and Elijah Blue Allman.
In 2020, Cher told People she was “very careful” with her mother because of COVID-19. “We have a little bubble that we’ve had all this time,” the singer added. “We wear masks, and there aren’t very many of us. It’s my sister, my brother-in-law, my mother, my assistant. And we stay away from each other.”
Famous friends and public figures offered their condolences to Cher on social media. “So sorry for your loss, my friend,” hillary clinton writes to the singer. “I send you all (love) in the world.”
Marlee Matlin wrote:I send you love dear.”
‘Sending so much love dear,’ the Welsh drag queen wrote The Vivienne in Cher. “She had an incredible life, she gave so much to the world, she gave to you! I am thinking of you and your whole family today.”
Actor “The Brady Bunch” Maureen McCormick wrote: “The love you and your mother shared was so beautiful and touching.”
Contributor: Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
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