Cher announces that she was nearly aborted in new Lifetime movie

The star’s mother, Georgia Holt, admitted that she almost had an abortion when she was pregnant with the future star during the filming of the new Lifetime movie “Dear Mom, Love Cher.”

Holt was a 20-year-old single mother, newly separated from Cher’s father and living with her mom, when she got pregnant with the pop icon in 1946. When she discovered she was pregnant, her mother told her she had a choice to make – go back to her husband or have an abortion.

She discussed how she attended her scheduled appointment for the abortion, but her gut told her it was the wrong thing to do.

“I can remember the chairs were chrome [in the clinic], and I was sweating,” Holt said during the movie. “The sweat was just coming off of me on this chrome and when the door opened and it was my turn, I said, ‘Mother, I can’t do it.’ So, that’s how she’s here.”

Holt ultimately divorced her husband and raised Cher on her own. At one point, she even placed young Cher in a Catholic orphanage, but ended up bringing her daughter back home shortly afterward.

Cher acknowledged that the orphanage experience is still a sensitive issue for her mother.

“The orphanage story has been a touchy one for my mom her whole life, and she didn’t want to talk about it,” Cher told USA Today. “I said, ‘Mom, why didn’t you just march in and take me?’ She said, ‘I didn’t have the power. I didn’t have any money or a job, and the church was so strong. I’d go see you every day and you’d be crying. You don’t know what it was like.’ It was harder for women then.”

Despite her incredible story, Cher still considers herself to be pro-choice and is a strong advocate for Planned Parenthood.

Well Cher, at least “we still got you babe.”