Speaking of age, back when I was a (dumb) shipper I would’ve said that she kept her comments brief because to expound would’ve had her choked up in tears, convulsed with emotion. And I would’ve rhapsodized that she said he HAD to get better because the thought of him not making a full recovery paralyzed her with fear.
So, I grew up as a Sonny and Cher fan and Chaz (then still Chastity) said when he called his mom to tell her Sonny was dead, to his surprise she broke down in hysterics (25 years after the divorce) and he had to scramble to get his Aunt Georgianne on the phone to calm her down.
I was so touched by the story. But Cher was always like that. She dragged Sonny through the mud, but she never let anyone else do it. One interviewer said Sonny had a bad voice and she was like, “Bob Dylan had a bad voice, what’s your point.”
One time the Los Angeles Times gave Sonny’s restaurant a bad review and I wrote in to complain, but Cher best me to the punch. She wrote that the review was so biased she could have used it for a dress pattern.
Neither Stevie nor Lindsey had that sense of protectiveness about the other, but I guess I told myself otherwise for many, many years.
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