Cher says Madonna "can be mean" but they have "buried that hatchet".
Cher says pop rival Madonna can be mean
The 77-year-old pop star has opened up about the pair's long-running feud after Madonna, 65, included a video in her new concert tour showing Cher calling her "mean" - insisting she stands by her comments but she's convinced there is no longer any bad blood between them.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Cher was asked about Madonna's tour video and quipped: "I said a lot worse than that [calling her mean]."
She added: "It’s not a beef. I actually like her. But come on ... She can be [mean]. We buried that hatchet a long time ago because I called her something so much worse, and she forgave me.
"But I give her this: There’s no one like her that had their ear to the ground and knew everything before anybody else. I mean, she knew what was coming, and she was right on it. I always felt that was her greatest gift - that she could know the trends before any of us."
A clip from a 1991 interview posted on YouTube.com shows Cher talking about her pop rival - calling her a "spoiled brat" and "rude".
Cher said: "There's something about her that I don't like ... she's mean. I don't like that ... She was just so rude to everybody. 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. It seems to me 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 ... "