As a part of her Fortieth-anniversary Celebration Tour, Madonna turns back time, via video clip — specifically, to the time Cher called the Queen of Pop “mean,” during a 1991 interview.
“Yeah, but I’ve called her much worse,” Cher, 77, told The Post during a lengthy interview.
Still, the “Consider” singer — who released her first holiday LP, “Christmas,” on Friday — gives Madonna credit for the best way that she has expressed herself over her four-decade profession.
“You realize, she’s had her moments babe,” she said. “One thing that I cannot ever take away from her … this chick had her ear to the bottom like no other woman I ever knew.
“She was ahead of all of us every moment, each time — the look, the song, the sensation … I mean, nobody is like her in that way.”
The moment where Cher describes Madonna as “mean” is taken from footage where the Oscar-winning actress was interviewed by Steve Kmetko for CBS.
“There are a number of things that I respect about [Madonna],” Cher says in an extended clip that may be found on YouTube. “I feel that she knows the way to work the business like no one I’ve ever seen before.
“And there’s something about her that I don’t like. She’s mean. I don’t like that.”
Cher goes on to recount her impression of Madonna when the “Vogue” diva visited her home together with her then-husband Sean Penn.
“I remember having her over at my house a few times because Sean and I were friends, and she or he just was so rude to everybody,” she recalls.
“It seems to me that she’s got a lot that she doesn’t should act the best way that she acts, like a spoiled brat on a regular basis. It seems to me if you reach the sort of acclaim that she’s reached and may do whatever you wanna do, try to be just a little more magnanimous and be just a little less of a c—t.”
