Cher has released the first part of her memoir, a book she says was exhausting to write. Photo: AP PHOTO
Cher says writing her memoir took a lot out of her, and she doesn’t care what people think of the final result.
The 78-year-old pop icon has explored her life and career in the first volume of a two-part tome simply titled Cher, but admitted that combing over several decades “took it out” of her.
“This book has exhausted me. It took a lot out of me. Too much life. Lived too long,” the told The New York Times.
“People can say what they want. It’s who I am. I am who I am. I can’t change it.”
The Believe singer shot to fame alongside her then-husband Sonny Bono – with whom she has 55-year-old son Chaz – as part of a duo in the late 1960s but the pair had a tumultuous relationship that ended in divorce in 1975.
During their time together, Bono arranged their finances so Cher became his employee and she was initially unaware of this.
Cher and then-husband Sonny Bono found fame in the 1960s but the pair divorced in 1975. (AP PHOTO)
Bono died in 1998 in a skiing accident at the age of 62, and Cher says she still wishes she could ask him why he did that in the first place.
“We’re husband and wife. Half the things are his, half the things are mine. It didn’t occur to me that there was another way,” she said.
“To this day, I wish to God I could just ask, ‘Son, at what point, during what day, did you go, ‘Yeah, you know what? I’m going to take her money’.”
The I Got You Babe singer then married Gregg Allman that same year, and they had Elijah, 48, together but divorced in 1979.
Cher has been dating music executive Alexander “AE” Edwards, 38, since 2022.
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