For those unaware, Cher is coming out with a memoir, aptly titled “Cher: The Memoir (Part One).”
For those who are unaware, Cher now says that her ex-husband at one point thought about killing her.
There. Have we caught your attention?
In the early 1970s, Cher was married to fellow musician Sonny Bono.
They released the iconic duet “I Got You Babe”, they co-starred on the show The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, they were a big deal at the time.
But then he was not completely happy. at all.
In her book, Cher details the time they spent at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas in October 1972… when she told her husband she wanted to sleep with Bill, their band’s guitarist.
Cher insisted that she didn’t really mean it, but Bono didn’t take her seriously when she first said she wanted out of the union.
“The silence was deafening. Then [Sonny] Said, ‘How much time do you think you’ll need?'” Cher writes.
“Two hours,” she replied, causing Bono to leave the room and Cher to cry.
The couple eventually agreed to separate, but agreed that Cher would continue to live with Bono during the week so as not to tarnish her public image.
Crazy, right?
One morning at breakfast during this strange period, Bono immediately came out and said:
“You know, after I went to the Sahara with Bill that night, I seriously thought about throwing you off our balcony.”
“He laughed a little at that and so did I. It was crazy that he was saying that to me,” Cher writes, adding that she responded by saying “there was no need to push me because I was about to jump. !”
According to Cher, Bono also told her that he would “plead to insanity” after committing the act and would serve seven years in prison before being released. Then I’ll get a book deal and my own show.”
Sounds like Bono really thought about this.
Cher also writes:
“I don’t think for a minute that Sonny would have actually pushed me off the balcony, but I’m sure it would have crossed his mind, and he knew that the thought of jumping had crossed my mind too. What else could we do except laugh?”
Sonny and Cher met when she was just 16 years old and he was 27 years old. They were married from 1964 to 1975.
The ex, whom Cher says was unfaithful to her during their marriage, died after a skiing accident in 1998.
Cher: The Memoirs (Part One) is currently available to purchase.