Cher tears up over Dolly Parton's death

Cher is remembering her longtime friend Dolly Parton following her death.

In an interview with CBS News on August 25, looking back at the time when she first met the late country singer and how her style caught Cher’s attention.

She said, “I walked in, and I see this chick with this major hair, white pants and white, not exactly a shirt but a jacket-y shirt, and I looked up and she had buttons on, not the lapel, but you know the part that goes down your chest — a yoke, a yoke. I looked at it and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’ve never seen som any buttons in my life.’”

Then Cher asked her longtime manager, Sandy Gallin, recalled, “I said, Sandy, ‘Who is that girl?’ And he said, ‘You know what, Cher, you’re gonna love her and she’s gonna love you.’ And it was the truth, and we did."

Speaking about the things she admired about Dolly, she went on to say further, “She just had a spirit, and it was a spirit that was always thinking the best was happening, the best was gonna happen. Her friends loved her. Her life was good. That’s who she was.”

Talking about the Tennessee icon’s stage presence cher said, “You can either do this thing or you can’t, and she did it."

“When she walked across the stage, every once in a while she would bend over to reach out, she reached out to the audience, and she reached out to the people that were closest to her, and she smiled," she added. 

Of the late icon's infectious laugh, Cher admitted that “her laugh” will always be remembered.