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Cher disses Madonna, says she never wants to duet with her

The two music icons have never been close

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8 years ago

September 26, 2018

Mariah Cooper

Cher on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ (Screenshot via EllenTube)

Cher couldn’t hide her disdain for Madonna while playing “5 Second Rule” on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

In the game, Cher and DeGeneres battle each other to give three answers to a question before the end of five seconds. DeGeneres asks Cher which three celebrities she’d like to duet with.

“Oh, Adele, P!nk and not Madonna,” Cher replied.

“Alright, Miss Negative,” DeGeneres says. “He said who you’d want to, not who you wouldn’t want to.”

“I took license, I took a little license,” Cher shot back.

Cher has been public about her dislike for Madonna in the past. In an interview with CBS in 1991, Cher detailed why she wasn’t a fan of the “Material Girl” singer.

“There’s something about her that I don’t like. She’s mean. I don’t like that,” Cher said. “I remember having her over to my house a couple of times, because [Sean Penn] and I were friends, and she just was so rude to everybody. It seems to me that she’s got so much that she doesn’t have to act that way.”

“She acts like a spoiled brat all the time. And it seems to me when you reach the kind of acclaim that she’s reached — and you can do whatever you want to do — you should be a little bit more magnanimous, and a little bit less of a cunt,” she added.

However, the two music icons were seen marching together during the Women’s March in D.C. in 2017.

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