be friends

In "The Today Show's" coverage of their spicy viral moment, they provide the backstory on how Cher and Lucille Ball came to be friends, writing, "You may be wondering how exactly Ball and Cher even knew each other. Cher writes she had known the legendary sitcom star since she was little and that they attended an election results party for the 1972 presidential election hosted by Jack Benny, which Cher writes she didn’t want to attend."

It can be friends, colleagues, aunts, uncles, neighbours or Chris Martin from Coldplay.

“When we first started getting to be friends, before he got his Warner deal, he already knew what songs were going on his second album,” Alvin said.

“We weren’t really allowed to be friends with one another, and we certainly weren’t allowed to confide in one another,” she said.

"Accent bias is one of the biggest issues. And they made assumptions from our accents on our intelligence levels and whether we would be friends or not," she said.