I wouldnt be in it now if they gave me a million dollars, she said.
Im not kidding you.
Im never going to change my mind.
Cher speaks onstage during the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction CeremonyKevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
They can just you-know-what themselves.
Her rage was understandable.
But when voters decided that this was finally her year, Cher reconsidered her position and decided to go.
Im going to have some words to say,she toldEntertainment Tonight.Im going to accept it as me.
Cher thanked her longtime guardian David Geffen and attributed her mother for teaching her to never give up.
Her voice is so singular that any song she sings becomes a Cher song, Zendaya said.
Shes navigated a multitude of musical genres, defined new ones and reinvented others.
Read Chers speech below.
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Thank you.
Im not sure how a child knows about being famous, but I do.
I had a crazy, amazing mother.
And so my mom kept instilling it into me, because it was hard.
I didnt do well in school.
I just couldnt get it.
I couldnt read, I couldnt do any of that stuff.
But she said, you know, if youre down and youre out, you get up again.
And in my life, Ive been so down.
As my mother would say, lower than a snakes belly.
Thats how down Ive been.
People have told me that I was finished, that I was through that I have 10 minutes.
The one thing that I think I got from my mom is I never gave up.
When Sunny and I split, I nothing.
I had a car and my clothes, and I had to go to Vegas.
At that point, Vegas was the elephants graveyard.
If you went there, you had nothing.
Now its cool, everybody has a residency.
And I went, Okay!
He said, Go to New York.
Honestly, I believe what my mom said, but Im lucky.
Ive had really bad things happen.
Im not a great singer.
And also, I changed the sound of music forever, all right?
It was so great.
It was like a moment.
I went, yes, yes.
Thats the great part.
Thats the great part.
I never give up.
Im talking to the women.
Im talking to women.
You guys are on your own.
As my mom would say, were special.
Good night, and thank you so much.
