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During the last visitChermade out to Switzerland to see her longtime friendTina Turner, the star left with a parting gift: a pair of Turner’s high heels.
“I’m not going to wear them,” Cher tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “I just have them up in my closet.”
The trip marked the last time Cher, 77, saw Turner, as the Queen of Rockdied in May at age 83following a long illness. Despite her health woes, though, Cher says Turner was still her fun-loving self during a different, recent visit.
“I got to see her. She was lying on the chaise and said, ‘I’m tired.’ Then for two hours we were running around the house, and she was laughing hysterically,” she recalls. “She just needed to talk and yell. That’s the Tina that I loved. We had the best time and talked about the old times.”
Cher’s friendship with the “Proud Mary” singer stretches back decades; the pair famously duetted on “Shame, Shame, Shame” on her soloChervariety show in 1975 (wearing matching fringed dresses), and sang together several other times over the years, including withElton Johnin 1999.
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“We had a lot of great memories,” she says.
In recent years, Turner had battled a number of serious health problems, including a stroke, intestinal cancer and total kidney failure that required an organ transplant.
“With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model,” the statement read.
For more from Cher, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere now.
source: people.com
