'Mom is gone': Cher tells fans that her mother, Georgia Holt, has died - The Washington Post

Chad Michaels, a “RuPaul’s Drag Race” victor and Cher impersonator, tweeted “Words are inadequate.” Cher often uses aggregate emoji successful her tweets to accidental however she’s feeling, and galore celebrities did the aforesaid successful expressing their sympathy, including CNN’s Don Lemon, histrion Seth Green and Bravo big Andy Cohen. “[T]he nonaccomplishment of your ma is conscionable devastating,” tweeted “Community” histrion Yvette Nicole Brown. “May your leader #RIP.”

Cher, who is 76, has agelong talked astir her admiration and respect for her parent and the closeness they shared. Cher fans person travel to expect to regular updates from the vocalist connected her mother’s health, activities and shared wit and wisdom. Cher has memories of her parent and her mother’s friends being “so beautiful” during her childhood. “When they walked into the room, everything stopped. She was besides an astonishing dresser. We based the costumes successful ‘Mermaids’ connected pictures of her from the ’50s,” Cher said of her ma successful an interrogation with People successful 2013.

The mother-daughter brace gave fans an intimate presumption of their narration successful the 2013 Lifetime documentary “Dear Mom, Love Cher.” The movie featured interviews with Holt, her daughters Cher and Georganne LaPiere and Cher’s sons, Chaz Bono and Elijah Blue Allman — providing audiences with a broader presumption of Holt’s beingness story, beyond being Cher’s mother. Cher initiated the task aft Holt recovered tapes of her ain never-released album, from sessions recorded successful 1980. For her mom’s 86th birthday, Cher had the tapes remastered and past filmed her ma singing and talking astir her beingness and aboriginal vocation ambitions.

Holt was calved Jackie Jean Crouch successful agrarian Arkansas and archetypal discovered her emotion of euphony portion singing successful Oklahoma saloons. Determined to capitalize connected her talents, she moved to Hollywood. Holt was concisely joined to Cher’s father, John Sarkisian; arsenic a azygous mother, she struggled financially and concisely placed Cher successful a Catholic orphanage. She visited her crying girl each time and faced mounting pressures to enactment her girl up for adoption. Holt was joined and divorced respective much times.

“She ne'er gave maine and my sister proposal because, truthfully, she knew we’d ne'er instrumentality it,” Cher told People. “Instead, we learned astir beingness by listening to her speech astir the things she did incorrect and the things she did right.”

Holt got backmost connected her feet and managed to onshore roles successful Hollywood. She made appearances successful “Watch the Birdie,” “I Love Lucy,” “The Mike Douglas Show” and “The Merv Griffin Show.”

“Dear Mom, Love Cher,” coincided with the merchandise of “Honky Tonk Woman,” which featured 10 restored and remixed tracks Holt primitively recorded, including a duet with Cher called “I’m Just Your Yesterday,” which Holt primitively wrote.

“It’s a bully Mother’s Day special, but it’s not Hallmark,” Cher said astatine the time. “She got her imagination aft 80 years. … Women should ne'er deliberation they person a sell-by date.”