Cher & Kelly Clarkson Talk Willie Nelson’s Bus and ‘Contact High’ – Billboard

Oscar, Grammy and Emmy winner Cher visited The Kelly Clarkson Show earlier this month, however NBC saved a number of clips from Cher’s chat with Kelly Clarkson for a post-holiday deal with that they shared on-line the day after Christmas (Dec. 26).

In one clip, Cher is speaking about her perfume line with Scent Beauty entitled “Decades,” a four-part assortment with every scent representing her tackle a specific decade.

“I was shocked the ‘70s didn’t smell like marijuana,” Clarkson advised Cher of her “Me” Decade-themed scent. “I was like, oh, this one will obviously smell like Willie Nelson’s bus.”

“Oh my God, I’ve been on Willie Nelson’s bus, it smells exactly like marijuana,” Cher responded. Clarkson, no stranger to the world of nation music herself, concurred. “I went on Wille Nelson’s bus and I got a contact high,” the American Idol champ and daytime TV juggernaut shared.

“It was a terrible old bus,” Cher recalled. “But he was great. And just… drugs everywhere,” she added, laughing.

“When you walked out you were definitely hungry,” Clarkson quipped.

Clarkson additionally introduced up the primary time she met Cher, which was on the forty first annual Kennedy Center Honors, the place Cher was feted alongside Philip Glass, Reba McEntire and Wayne Shorter. Clarkson was there to honor McEntire with a efficiency of the nation icon’s hit model of “Fancy,” however admitted she was a bit nervous to satisfy Cher on the 2018 occasion. Using that as a leaping off level, Clarkson requested Cher is she’s ever been starstruck by a star.

“Meryl Streep when I first met her,” Cher admitted. Streep was her co-star in 1983’s Silkwood, the Mike Nichols-directed movie about real-life nuclear security whistleblower Karen Silkwood who died beneath what quite a few associates thought to be suspicious circumstances. Unlike the tragic biopic, nonetheless, Cher’s future with fellow Oscar winner Streep was far brighter: “We became friends and we’ve been friends ever since.”