Cher She opened up about the ups and downs of her relationship with her ex-husband. Greg Allman In his new memoir.
“I didn’t know if my relationship with Gregory would last. I was living each day as it came,” the 78-year-old singer wrote. Cher: A Memoir – Part I. “Then I found out I was pregnant, and we decided to get married.”
Cher recalled how the couple’s wedding was “arranged in a matter of days.” She told her two friends and they joined her in Las Vegas at the event, which was “over in minutes.” She and Allman, who died in 2017 at age 69, posed for photos and then flew “straight back home.”
“I was no longer Cher Bono but Cher Allman, Gregory’s third wife,” she wrote. “There was very little about our wedding day that was romantic. There would be no honeymoon.”
Cher may have had a long and successful career — but not without her own personal drama. The Grammy winner dropped out of high school in 1962 to focus on his music and met Sonny Bono soon after. After falling in love – and achieving musical success together – the two tied the knot. […]
In the book, which hits shelves Tuesday, Nov. 19, Cher explains that one morning after Allman left, she looked through her dope kit and allegedly found a “plastic bag full of white powder.” . While Cher had been by Allman’s side during her addiction struggles, finding substance was a turning point for her as they were expecting their first child together. (Cher was already mom to Chaz, whom she shared with her ex. Sonny Bono.)
After seeing her doctor for a checkup, Cher was told by several friends that Allman planned to divorce her. When she confronted Allman about it, the “Believe” singer claimed she “lied and denied it.” She filed for divorce the next day.
Allman later checked into rehab and turned to Cher Bono, as the two formers remained friends after their split. When Allman asks Cher to visit him in rehab, Bono encourages him to go. At the facility, Cher joins Allman for a therapy session where he talks about feeling “the pressure to be Mr. Cher”.
Cher and Greg Allman.
Harry Langdon/Getty ImagesAfter a breakthrough therapy moment, the pair reconciled and ended up going to Jamaica for a “late honeymoon”. During the trip, Cher claims she saw Allman drinking rum and the two got into a heated argument. Cher eventually left the sixth early.
Not long after, Cher discovered that Allman was also addicted to heroin and gave him an ultimatum to go back to rehab before the arrival of their child.
“I don’t remember which date I chose. It was somewhat arbitrary,” he wrote. “I repeated the same pattern over and over with us, telling him on the phone, ‘Gregory, I’m so tired of doing this. I’m so tired of going to rehab with you.’ He was quiet on the other end of the line. ‘But I’m going,’ he said softly, stopping me in my tracks, because it was true, he’d been trying to clean up In that moment, instead of thinking about my exhaustion, I sympathized with him.
There’s only one goddess of pop — and she only needs one name: Cher. The legendary singer (born Cherylyn Sarkisian) has had more than five decades in her mega-successful career, spanning the worlds of music, TV, film and fashion. He’s just one Tony Award away from being an EGOT winner. […]
In July 1976, the couple welcomed a son, Elijah. However, after bringing Elijah home, Cher noticed that Allman began to exhibit behaviors that she did not want her child to exhibit.
“The tipping point came soon after, when Gregory fainted one night and insisted he saw men with guns in the backyard. ‘This is the last straw,’ I thought,” he said. claimed “Whatever it is now, it’s not safe for kids. It only happened once, but I couldn’t risk it.”
Cher and Allman separated a second time and divorced in 1978.
Cher: A Memoir – Part I Hit shelves on Tuesday, November 19.
