Cher seems to confirm that her mother Georgia Holt died at 96

Cher has apparently announced that her mother, Georgia Holt, has passed away at the age of 96.

The legendary singer, 76, posted a brief tweet that prompted many of her 4 million Twitter followers to send her condolences

“Mom is gone,” Cher wrote, followed by a frowning emoji.

In early September, Cher revealed in a Twitter post that Georgia had been hospitalized with pneumonia and was suffering from recurring health issues.

‘Sorry, I was Mia. Mom has been sick intermittently. She has just been released from the hospital. She had pneumonia,’ wrote the star, who continued with: ‘She is better’

The following day, Cher returned to the platform to thank her fans for their prayers and assure them that having her mother back home is the best for her.

“Mom is gone,” Cher wrote, followed by a frowning emoji

“Mom is gone,” Cher wrote, followed by a frowning emoji. Fans quickly flooded the icon’s comments section with condolences

In early September, Cher revealed in a Twitter post that her mother had been hospitalized with pneumonia and was suffering from recurring health issues.

The following day, Cher returned to the platform to thank her fans for their prayers and assure them that having her mother back home is the best for her.

Cher paid tribute to her mother in 2013 with a Lifetime documentary titled Dear Mom, Love Cher.

The film, produced by Cher, detailed Holt’s childhood in Arkansas, her six marriages, and her singing and acting career in Los Angeles as she struggled to provide for her daughter.

He recounted how, while pregnant with Cher, Georgia nearly had an abortion due to pressure from her own mother.

Having recently left her husband, aged just 19, Georgia sought advice from her mother – who told her to get rid of the child.

‘I never remember not singing’: Cher recalled as a child: ‘I remember singing and talking at the same time’, adding: ‘My mom and I sang together all the time’

Georgia’s mother, who was only 13 when she herself gave birth, advised Georgia to either have an abortion or return to her husband; she could not raise the child as a single mother.

Ignoring the advice, Georgia went ahead with the pregnancy and kept the child, whom she named Cherilyn Sarkisian – although she temporarily placed her in an orphanage when she ran out of money.

Georgia once harbored her own ambitions to be a performer, singing in saloons as a child and winning a series of beauty pageants as a teenager.

In a statement posted to EW.com at the time of the documentary, Cher said, “My mom is just like Rocky. She never gives up!

Three generations: Georgia moved rapidly with the times, reacting with complete composure when Cher’s daughter, Chastity, became a man named Chaz; the trio are pictured in 1974

That year, at the age of 86, Georgia released her first country album Honky Tonk Woman – which had been recorded over three decades earlier in 1980.

‘It’s such a thrill. I just cried and cried and cried,” Georgia told The Huffington Post. ‘I cried from the special, I cried from the album coming out after all these years. My father started singing to me when I was six years old.

Cher, who sang with Georgia on the album, once joked to her, “Mother, do you realize you have the most expensive backing vocalist in the world?”

The pop diva recalled it as a child: “I remember singing and talking about the same time. I don’t remember not singing. My mom and I sang together all time.

Support system: Georgia stood by Cher in 2010 when the showbiz icon had her handprints placed in front of what was then Grauman’s Chinese Theater

Georgia has been a lifelong support for her daughter through her stratospheric rise to stardom – as well as her turbulent love life.

Cher’s romantic history included failed marriages to Sonny Bono – who she rose to fame with before falling out in a bitter divorce where she accused him of pushing her into ‘involuntary servitude’ – and Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers.

Much like her mother, Cher left home at 17 – although Cher did so to secretly move in with Sonny, who was 12 years her senior.

Years later, Georgia recalled with a laugh that “I didn’t know that was why she left the house.” I thought she was living with a flight attendant.

Back: Cher is pictured having a picnic with Georgia and another woman

When Cher and her mother went on the Tonight Show together, they confessed to Jay Leno that Georgia initially disapproved of Cher’s romance with Sonny.

Georgia was obviously put off by the age gap between the two, as well as the fact that Sonny had been married and had a child.

Georgia herself had a tumultuous love life that included six marriages, a fact Cher attributes to the social mores of her generation.

“She once said that in her day you couldn’t just live with someone, so she got married instead,” Cher told People magazine a few years ago. “Otherwise she probably would have only been married once.”

Post-divorce: In 1983, when Sonny and Cher were divorced but friendly, they posed for this photo with their child and Georgia at Bono’s Restaurant in Hollywood.

“I was married a lot but didn’t stay married very long because I couldn’t seem to pick someone who was a stable man,” Georgia herself confessed to the Huffington Post nearly a decade ago. year.

Georgia moved quickly with the times, reacting with complete composure when Sonny and Cher’s daughter, Chastity, became a man named Chaz.

“My sister, my brother-in-law and [my son] Elijah told her, “Georgia, we just wanted to let you know that Chaz is becoming a man,” Cher recalled. ‘And mom said, “That’s interesting, honey.” We all freaked out. We laughed so hard that we had tears in our eyes. His reaction was less than anyone else in the family.

Georgia has taken an unconventional approach to motherhood, according to Cher, who revealed, “She never gave me and my sister [actress Georganne LaPiere Bartylak] advice because, truth be told, she knew we would never take it.

Wow: When Cher and her mother went on the Tonight Show together, they confessed to Jay Leno that Georgia initially disapproved of Cher’s romance with Sonny

Cher explained, “Instead, we learned about life by listening to her talk about the things she did wrong and the things she did right.”

Five years ago, Cher made headlines for pulling out of a Lifetime film about Flint’s water crisis because of what she described as a “serious family issue.”

“Cher is worried about her mother’s health. She’s over 90 now and doesn’t want to be away from her,’ an insider told Entertainment Tonight at the time. “His mother is not sick, but she is somewhat fragile.”

After racking up six failed marriages by age 50, Georgia finally found lasting love in 1976 with an antique dealer named Craig Spencer.

As seen in the 1970s: After racking up six failed marriages by age 50, Georgia finally found lasting love in 1976 with an antique dealer named Craig Spencer.

Georgia and Craig caused a stir when they first became an item due to the fact that she was 21 years his senior.

When the couple appeared on a Baltimore talk show co-hosted by an up-and-coming Oprah Winfrey, Georgia admitted she initially treated Craig “like a son.”

“I would never have dated him,” she said, “because I wouldn’t date anyone three years younger than me, let alone 21.”

Craig was kind to her, however, and he eventually managed to give her a chance, resulting in a romance that lasted nearly half a century until his death.