Cher said her mother was hospitalized with pneumonia earlier this year.
NEW YORK — Georgia Holt, the mother of singer Cher and a model, actress and singer herself, has died at the age of 96.
Cher confirms her mother’s death. On Twitter.
“Mother is gone,” he wrote.
Other details about the cause or date of death were not immediately released. Cher previously said her mother was hospitalized with pneumonia earlier this year.
“Sorry I’m Mia. Mom got sick and was walking. She just got out of the hospital. She had pneumonia. She’s getting better,” she said. wrote on Twitter in September.
Cher opened up about being extra careful around her mom during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling People magazine that she gets tested all the time to protect her health.
“We have a little bubble that we’ve had all along,” he said in a 2020 interview. “We wear masks, and there aren’t many of us. It’s my sister, my sister-in-law, my mother, my assistant. And we live far away from each other.”
Holt was born Jackie Jean Crouch in Arkansas in 1926 to a mother who was only 13 at the time of her birth. Her father taught her to sing and play the guitar, and Holt won singing and beauty contests and worked as a model as she made her way to Hollywood. The Hollywood ReporterBefore she landed small parts in popular shows like “I Love Lucy”, “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” and “Watch the Birdie”.
Holt married and divorced six times. She married Cher’s father, John Sarkisian, twice.
Holt was the subject of a 2013 documentary titled “Dear Mom, Love Cher,” which focused on her family history.
She released her debut album, “Honky Tonk Woman,” which she recorded in the 1980s, decades later in 2013. It featured a duet with his daughter, “I’m Only Your Tomorrow”.
She has made numerous appearances on reality shows as herself, including as a guest judge RuPaul’s Drag Race With grandson Chaz Bono in 2014.