Cher is mourning the sad loss of her mother Georgia Holt after she recently passed from battling an illness for several months at the age of 96.
Cher confirmed the news on Sunday morning in a tweet on Twitter.
“Mom is gone,” Cher wrote followed by a sad face emoji.
The tragic death comes three months after the “Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again” star told fans that her mother had been hospitalized with pneumonia.
“Sorry I’ve Been Mia. Mom’s Been Sick Off & On. She Just Got Out Of Hosp. She Had Pneumonia,” she wrote in September. “She’s Getting Better.”
Over the past several years, Cher, 76, said she’s been extremely “careful” not to contract COVID-19.
“We have a little bubble that we’ve had all this time,” she said back in 2020, while speaking about her mother’s health.
“We wear masks, and there’s not very many of us. It’s my sister, my brother-in-law, my mom, my assistant. And we stay far apart from each other,” she added, “I have to be careful too because I have asthma. I have different health problems.”
Holt, who was an actress, model, and singer, was born in Arkansas in 1926 to mother Lynda Inez Gulley, who was just 13 years old at the time she gave birth.
After leaving Arkansas and moving to Los Angeles, Holt landed multiple film and TV roles in iconic programs like ‘Watch the Birdie’ and ‘I Love Lucy’.
Holt even recorded an album, “Honky Tonk Woman,” in the 80s, but it wasn’t released until 2013.
Cher has previously revealed some of the lessons she learned about life and love from her mother.
“She never gave me and my sister advice because, truthfully, she knew we’d never take it,” Cher told People in 2013. “Instead, we learned about life by listening to her talk about the things she did wrong and the things she did right.”
Cher added, “I did a couple of things like running away when I was 11. I hopped a train with my friends. I was just very adventurous, but never disrespectful. She wouldn’t have put up with that.”
“I had a little problem with her over Sonny, but that didn’t take her too long to get over,” she added at the time. “She listened first before making a judgment, so I could always talk to her about my romances.”
