Cher on Calling Madonna 'Mean' in Concert Clip: 'I've Called Her Much Worse'

Cher cracked wise to the New York Post about her 1991 comment calling Madonna "mean" being included in a clips reel that's part of Madge's new concert tour.

Madonna fans were delighted by the moment, which was included in a compilation that was unveiled for the first time last weekend, as the Material Girl kicked off her months-delayed "Celebration Tour." In the clip, which comes from a 1991 interview, Cher reckons that "There are lots of things that I respect" about the "Like a Virgin" singer. But "respect" is different than "like," and Cher went on to say that "there's something about her that I don't like.

"She's mean," Cher specified. "I don't like that."

In comments to the Post, the 77-year-old hitmaker noted, "Yeah, but I've called her much worse" over the years.

Like what? Well, we're getting to that. Just be warned, it's seriously not nice.

"I remember having her over at my house a couple of times because Sean [Penn, who was Madonna's husband at the time] and I were friends, and she just was so rude to everybody," Cher told the Post.

"It seems to me that she's got so much that she doesn't have to act the way that she acts, like a spoiled brat all the time," Cher said, before adding that "when you reach the kind of acclaim that she's reached and can do whatever you wanna do, you should be a little more magnanimous and be a little less of a c–t."

But Cher reiterated the things she respects about Madonna, including that the 65-year-old Queen of Pop "had her ear to the ground like no other woman I ever knew.

"She was ahead of all of us every moment, every time – the look, the song, the feeling," Cher went on to say, "I mean, no one is like her in that way."

The "Believe" singer made her remarks in a wide-ranging interview in which she looked back over her sixty-year career, recalling everything from an early gig as a 17-year-old backup singer working with Phil Spector to working on her brand-new holiday album to meeting the Rolling Stones "the first time they ever came to America," a time when she was married to Sonny Bono and the Stones "wanted to stay at our house, and we only had a living room and a bedroom, and we went, 'You know, we can't do it'."

She even opened up about how she first met her boyfriend, producer Alexander Edwards, who is four decades younger – a subject she's been reluctant to say much about.

"It was really, really weird, because I wasn't looking for it really," Cher recalled of the September, 2022 meeting during Paris Fashion Week. "And we met because my friend kept nudging me to go ask him about his teeth. So I'm looking at this beautiful guy with white hair, tatted up and with these teeth. And so I said, 'Dude, I like your grill'."