The 78-year-old is looking backmost astatine her beingness successful her new book Cher: The Memoir, Part One, including her determination to suffer her virginity astatine the property of 14. According to the euphony icon, she’d been dating a vicinity lad but grew frustrated with him aft helium began to disregard her successful beforehand of his friends contempt the kisses they’d shared successful private.
“[He] was saccharine capable erstwhile we were alone, but arsenic soon arsenic his friends came around, he'd dainty maine similar an embarrassing kid," Cher wrote, per People. "I was truthful wounded erstwhile helium did that, I had revenge sex with him. I had ne'er wanted to. Otherwise I would person done it 1 of the 5 100 different times helium asked."
She explained, "But I was truthful aggravated astatine being dismissed, I decided to, if not lose, indebtedness retired my virginity to him."
And aft they’d done the deed, Cher turned the tables backmost connected him.
"When what turned retired to beryllium a massively overrated acquisition came to an end, I asked him, 'Is that it? Are we finished?'” she recalled successful her memoir. “Then I told him to spell location and ne'er travel back. I wanted him to consciousness conscionable arsenic dismissed arsenic he'd made maine feel."
And portion helium did so effort to triumph her back, Cher added that she ne'er spoke to him again.
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This aboriginal romanticist brushwood is lone 1 of the galore periods successful her romanticist beingness that Cher details successful her memoir, including her 11-year matrimony to Sonny Bono, with whom she formed Sonny & Cher.
According to the Grammy winner—who met Sonny, past 27, astatine the property of 16—felt truthful "dizzy with loneliness" successful their "loveless marriage" that she erstwhile considered ending her life portion looking retired implicit a edifice balcony successful Las Vegas.
"I saw however casual it would beryllium to measurement implicit the borderline and simply disappear," she wrote, per People. "For a fewer brainsick minutes I couldn't ideate immoderate different option. I did this 5 oregon six times."
However, she was held backmost by the illustration she felt she would acceptable for her loved ones—including her and Sonny’s son Chaz, present 55. As she explained, "Things similar this could marque radical who look up to maine consciousness that it’s a viable solution."
Instead, the debased infinitesimal helped Cher recognize determination was a amended solution. “I don't person to leap off,” she remembered thinking. “I tin conscionable permission him."
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These days, Cher—who was also joined to Greg Allman between 1975 and 1979—is happily successful emotion with her boyfriend Alexander "A.E." Edwards, 38, whom she’s been dating since Nov. 2022.
"We went to a fabulous place," she told E! News at the 2024 amfAR Cannes Gala astatine the time, recalling their acquisition astatine Chateau Romanov. "It was amazing. He was precise bully arsenic a host."