Cher’s mother, Georgia Holt, has died. She was 96.
The musician, 76, revealed the news onTwitterearly Saturday morning. “Mom is gone,” Cher tweeted alongside a sad-faceemoji.
The news comes three months after the pop superstar revealed on the socialmedia platform that her mother was hospitalized withpneumonia in September.
“Sorry I’ve Been Mia. Mom’s Been Sick Off & On. She Just Got Out Of Hosp. SheHad Pneumonia,” Cher wrote at the time, adding in a follow-up tweet: “She’sGetting Better.”
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Cher previously opened up about her mother’s health when she told PEOPLE thatshe would get tested for COVID-19 “all the time” and tried to be “verycareful” with her elderly mother amid the 2020 holiday season.
“We have a little bubble that we’ve had all this time,” she said. “We wearmasks, and there’s not very many of us. It’s my sister, my brother-in-law, mymom, my assistant. And we stay far apart from each other.”
She added: “I have to be careful too because I have asthma. … I have differenthealth problems.”
HOLLYWOOD, CA – NOVEMBER 18: Cher and her mother Georgia Holt attend Cher’shand and footprint ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theater on November 18, 2010in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)
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Holt — an actress, model and singer — was born in Arkansas in 1926 as thedaughter of 13-year-old Lynda Inez Gulley and 21-year-old Roy Malloy Crouch.
She eventually landed roles in film and on television after moving to LosAngeles, from 1950’s Watch the Birdie to I Love Lucy. She also madeappearances on The Mike Douglas Show and The Merv Griffin Show in 1979 and1980, eventually releasing her debut album Honky Tonk Woman in 2013, whichshe recorded in the ’80s.
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Back in 2013, around the release of Lifetime’s one-hour special Dear Mom,Love Cher the musician spoke to PEOPLE about lessons she’s learned from Holtthroughout her life — especially growing up with her and sister GeorganneLaPiere Bartylak in the San Fernando Valley.
The documentary told Holt’s story from Holt herself and many of her relatives— including Cher and Bartylak, as well as grandchildren Chaz Bono and ElijahBlue Allman.
“She never gave me and my sister advice because, truthfully, she knew we’dnever take it,” Cher said of her mother. “Instead, we learned about life bylistening to her talk about the things she did wrong and the things she didright.”
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO — (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Episode 4451 –Pictured: (lr) Musicians Cher, Georgia Holt during a commercial break on April30, 2013 — (Photo by: Margaret Norton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via GettyImages via Getty Images)
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When Cher was little, she said she remembered her mother and her friends being”so beautiful,” with Holt herself being an “amazing dresser.” Since Cher was”really strong-headed” she and Holt “fought a lot.”
“I did a couple of things like running away when I was 11,” Cher told PEOPLEat the time. “I hopped a train with my friends. I was just very adventurous –but never disrespectful. She wouldn’t have put up with that.”
Holt — who Cher always revealed “stressed the importance of being sure thatthe person you are with is the person you love” — was married and divorced sixtimes, but “probably would have been married just once” if she grew up in adifferent time, Cher said.
“I had a little problem with her about Sonny [Bono]but that didn’t take hertoo long to get over,” Cher told PEOPLE. “She listened first before making ajudgment, so I could always talk to her about my romances.”