SINGER Cher shocked the world with a Tweet about her mum’s health, after a series of updates about her recovery from pneumonia.
Let’s get to know more about the woman behind Cher’s great talent and upbringing, Georgia Holt, and what the star actually said.
Georgia Holt – born Jackie Jean Crouch – was born on June 9, 1926.
She was a singer-songwriter, an actress and a model and then passed on her talents to her daughter Cher.
Holt learned how to sing and play the guitar thanks to her dad and by age six, she was singing on an Oklahoma City radio station.
She won several talent and beauty competitions and started making some television appearances throughout the 1950s.
Her fame grew and she started taking part in talk shows too.
In 2013, she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote her daughter’s documentary, Dear Mom, Love Cher.
That year, Holt also released an album called Honky Tonk Woman.
Cher left fans shocked and surprised after she posted a single tweet which said: “Mom is gone,” along with a sad face emoji.
Newspapers started reporting that Georgia Holt passed away aged 96.
This comes after months since Cher told her fans that her mum was rushed to hospital with pneumonia.
In September, Cher revealed that her mum was suffering with several health issues and told fans at the time: “Sorry I’ve Been MIA.
“Mom’s Been Sick Off & On. She Just Got Out Of Hosp.
“She Had Pneumonia. She’s Getting Better.”
The day after, Cher said that her mum was recovering at home, saying: “Home is the best medicine for her… she’s getting better.”
Georgia Holt was married and divorced six times.
She had Cher with her first husband John Sarkisian – who she remarried 19 years later as her fifth husband and then divorced again.
Later, she married her second husband, actor John Southall, with whom she had another daughter who they named Georganne.
In 1961, Holt married Gilber Hartmann LaPiere, a bank manager who legally adopted both Cher and Georganne.
That is why their surnames were changed from Sarkisian and Southall to LaPiere.
Since 1976, Holt had been in a relationship with Craig Spencer.
