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Christina Aguilera talks about Cher: “She’s handled everything in her life so gracefully but still with an ‘F you’ attitude.”

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Issue 3003 - Pride 2011
I picked up the new issue of Frontiers IN LA yesterday which is a whopping 216 pages (plus the 36-page Frontiers4Men supplement).
On the cover is Christina Aguilera who is on a professional high with the success of NBC’s The Voice.
The interview took place before photos surfaced of Christina emerging from The Beverly over the weekend looking intoxicated. This comes three months after she was arrested in West Hollywood for being drunk.
I mention this because in the Frontiers article, Christina is asked about Cher, her co-star in Burlesque. I think she could learn a lot from Cher who may have had a high-profile love life, but was always too smart to get caught up in public scandal.
Here’s the section about Cher:

Q. Every gay man wants to know— what was it like working with Cher?
A. It’s an unforgettable experience of a lifetime. She’s Cher, and she was incredible to work with. She’s just a cool chick. I know that she rides motorcycles, and she comes in with a lot of her Chrome Hearts stuff and her decked-out, studded Ugg boots.
She’s really down-to-earth, and that’s what I appreciated the most about her. She definitely was there to give advice and help on-screen and off-screen.
We had a lot of ‘girl talk’ moments, about love and relationships and life. I saw a lot of myself in her, in the sense that I don’t get to meet very many people who have the ambition and the potential to stay in this business for a long time—and who better than Cher to sit down and speak with on a very real level about staying in the business and the sacrifices you have to make and the things that happen when you’re in the spotlight. She’s handled everything in her life so gracefully but still with an ‘F you’ attitude, underneath the grace and the style and elegance. I love everything she had to offer to me as some one still coming up in the business. She was just amazing.

Here’s my thought: It should be mentioned that in more than 45 years of stardom, Cher has never been involved in situations like this so hopefully Christina – the mother of a young child – will get a handle on this drinking in public.

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  1. To be fair, in 45 years of stardom, Cher never had to deal with the internet and the paparazzi that is today’s press. It seems like, if you want to be a public figure, you can’t step out of line from the moment of conception or someone will find out and run it in OK! Magazine, the Star or put it on the internet. When was it front page news that Cher was photographed drinking at a dive bar in West Hollywood in her twenties? No one would have cared and it would have been handled privately. But that was more than 25 years ago and the press is a different kind of voracious animal. The salacious stories that they feed us keeps an ever hungry public clamoring for the next great story of a “celebrity in crisis”.

  2. i love cher she is a star with class
    she has never done anything to give people the wrong impression of who she might be
    i love her way with words so sharp but always kind
    omg i love this woman even though am a woman aswell
    to me cher is one of the view who takes no crap from anybody only if they say anything nasty to her and thats what i love about her
    they (press paparazzi)should treat her with respect,they should give her more Dignity thats what she deserves and they should stop saying all that nastyness about her
    wow what an amazing human being cher is love her xxxxxx

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