Cher, on the passing of her friend Tina Turner:
“When I first knew her, she was still with Ike. It was very strange to see her with Ike and afterward. I was so thrilled, because afterward, she was so free. You could just see her being able to take a big breath. Her new life was like a big, fresh breath. She was such a force. Honestly, I think she just hit everything head-on... She wasn't about to stop. She might not have won every battle, but she fought every war. She was there fighting for all the things she believed in … She's one of the great artists of our generation, in rock and roll. There was no other person like her. There's no other person who could come close to who she was. I started going to visit her because I thought, ‘I need to put this time into our friendship, so she knows we haven’t forgotten her.’ So we kind of all took turns going and spending time with her. It made her happy and someone said, ‘When you two laugh together, it is the funniest thing that you could ever possibly want to hear’ because we both have distinct laughs. [She] said, 'I can't spend too much time,' [but] then five hours later we were laughing like crazy…She was having a good time in spite of the fact that she was really sick and not wanting people to know about it. There was no other person like her.” Diva to diva. |
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