A Talk with Cher About Music & Survival [Flashback]

Craig Seymour
6 min readMay 20, 2020

It’s 9 a.m. in Los Angeles, and Cher is awake. This is surprising because it’s hard to imagine a groggy Cher rolling out of bed at such a workaday hour, slipping her feet into bunny slippers, revving up the Waterpik, pouring a bowl of bran flakes. It all feels too, well, human.

But the star has good reason to be up talking on the phone to me at this un-Cher-ly hour. It’s…

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