“Mother is gone,” Cher tweeted Saturday
Georgia Holt, singer, actress and mom of Cher, has died on the age of 96.
“Mother is gone,” Cher tweeted Saturday evening; a rep for the singer confirmed Holt’s dying to The Hollywood Reporter.
Whereas no reason behind dying was offered, Cher beforehand revealed that her mom had been coping with well being points over the previous few months. “Sorry I’ve been Mia. Mother’s Been Sick Off & On. She Simply Acquired Out Of Hosp. She Had Pneumonia. She’s Getting Higher,” Cher tweeted in September.
As an actress within the Fifties, Holt landed bit elements in movies like A Lifetime of Her Personal, Grounds for Marriage, and Father’s Little Dividend, and appeared on TV exhibits like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and I Love Lucy, the place Holt performed a French vogue mannequin.
Over the previous decade, Holt made appearances on The Tonight Present, the Ellen DeGeneres Present and RuPaul’s Drag Race (alongside her grandson Chaz Bono), in addition to the 2013 documentary Expensive Mother, Love Cher.
“She by no means gave me and my sister recommendation as a result of, honestly, she knew we’d by no means take it,” Cher stated of her mom within the documentary. “As an alternative, we realized about life by listening to her discuss in regards to the issues she did mistaken and the issues she did proper.”
In 2013, Holt launched her debut nation album Honky Tonk Girl, which was recorded within the Eighties however not unearthed till a long time later when Holt rediscovered the grasp tapes. The album featured a duet along with her daughter Cher, “I’m Simply Your Yesterday.”