If she could turn back time!
Only Cher survived by dropping an F-bomb on live television. The “Believe” singer, 78, intentionally used profanity while discussing her divorce from her late ex-husband Sonny Bono. “Today” Tuesday morning.
Cher, who just released her new memoir, talked to Hoda Kotb about how she sought advice from Lucille Ball while wrestling with the idea of leaving Bono amid her marital issues.
When Kotb, 60, asked what Ball said to her, Cher replied, “I can’t say it on TV. Do you want to play it?”
“We’ll blow it up,” Kotb said.
“I knew him when I was young. I said, ‘Lucy, I’m calling you because to my knowledge there’s never been anyone else in a situation like yours,'” Cher said, noting that Ball had left Desi Arnaz in 1960.
“He said, ‘Fuck it, you’ve got talent,'” Cher said.
Kotb and other members of the “Today” team behind the camera gasped and laughed loudly in response to Cher dropping the F-bomb.
“Okay, we didn’t get seven seconds, but we’ll get it for the next feed,” Kotb said.
“Well you said I can!” Cher said.
“I should have bleeped it myself,” Kotb said, laughing. “Sleep!”
Then how did the conversation turn to this? former couple She still did “The Sonny and Cher Show” after their divorce in 1975.
“I managed to stay friends with him until … I don’t even know it,” Cher said, adding that she and Bono’s friendship began after he married his fourth wife, Mary Whitaker, in 1986. After it ended.
“It’s Madness,” New Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Continued. “It was not that we did not get along. He was the one telling me what to do, and I was doing it. But when we were doing the show, I was better than him. We were equal. Not later – that was great. But initially he was having trouble finding his feet. And I just came in and said, ‘These are games. I understood.'”
Cher was only 16 years old when she met Bono, who was 27 years old. They were married for 11 years A kid together, Chaz.
In her new memoir, Cher opens up about her tumultuous relationship with Bono, including how he allegedly stole her money from their singing and TV partnership.
“He Took All My Money,” Cher told the New York Times While promoting his book. “I just thought, ‘We’re husband and wife. ‘Half the things are his, half the things are mine.’ It never occurred to me that there was another way.”
Cher wrote in her memoir that Bono cheated throughout her marriage, including with her assistant. He also claimed that he He “seriously thought” about killing her. At the end of their marriage.
Bono died in a skiing accident in 1998. He was 62 years old.
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