Cher reflects on her second marriage – and what went wrong.
The singer reflected on that Relationship with Gregg Allman In her best-selling book, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” and why she said “I do” so soon.
According to the book, Cher’s divorce Her ex-husband Sonny Bono This was finalized in June 1975 when she began dating the rocker.
Now the 78-year-old has admitted she had some reservations about her budding romance with the Allman Brothers Band singer.
“I didn’t know if my relationship with Gregory would last,” the star wrote in a quote from People magazine on Wednesday.
“I was just taking each day as it came,” she shared. “Then I found out I was pregnant and we decided to get married.”
According to the outlet, Cher wanted to get married if she were to have a child.
“I just kept putting one foot in front of the other,” Cher wrote, as quoted by the outlet. “The future is never written in stone. I did what I thought was the right thing to do.”
The book notes that Cher’s sister Georganne “G” and her friend Paulette looked “as if I’d walked into an alternate universe” after the singer told her she was ready to tie the knot. In response, Cher said, “Let’s just do that.”
The outlet noted that the wedding took place just days after Cher’s divorce from Bono.
“There was nothing romantic about our wedding day,” the Oscar winner admitted.
Nine days after their wedding, Cher filed for dissolution of marriage. They reconciled.
The couple welcomed a son, Elijah Blue Allman, in 1976. However, he left it forever in 1979.
New York Post It was previously reported that the “Believe” singer had filed for divorce after allegedly finding her spouse’s “plastic bag full of white powder.”
Things got worse when she later learned that Allman had a severe heroin addiction.
,[I] Told him on the phone, ‘I’m so tired of doing this, Gregory. “I’m so tired of going to rehab with you,” she recalled, quoted by the outlet. “He was calm on the other end of the line. ‘But I keep going,’ he said softly.
Cher continued, “His answer caught me off guard because it was so true.” “He kept going to rehab, kept trying to get clean, kept trying even though he had failed in the past. At that moment, instead of thinking about my own exhaustion, I sympathized with him.” Cher wrote that her ‘breaking point’ came when Allman suffered an ‘unusual breakdown’ one night. .
,[He] “He insisted he saw men with guns in the backyard,” the Grammy winner wrote.
He called that moment “the last straw”.
“it [was] Not safe for kids,” Cher said. “It only happened once, but I couldn’t risk it.”
The “I’m No Angel” singer died of liver cancer in 2017. He was 69 years old.
Alan Paul, author of “Brothers & Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the ’70s,” previously told Fox News Digital that the late star “never stopped loving” Cher.
Paul said, “Greg didn’t like talking about Cher that much.” “People took it as disliking him, aggression towards him or something. I don’t believe it ever was. I think it was the opposite.”
Paul said that after looking at their marriage, it was clear that neither of them were prepared for what was to come.
“Greg was a full-blown drug addict at the time and was struggling to recover,” he said. “He went in and out of rehab several times. He had times when he was able to overcome it. He spoke very openly about this. Cher, even though she was in Hollywood by the age of 16-17 and was a celebrity, was quite naive. “She couldn’t understand what it meant.”
“Greg at one point, early in their relationship, told her, ‘Just go home. Let’s say it was a trip to Disneyland. It was fun while it lasted. Now go home,'” Paul said. He was unable to tell her that he was addicted. In her mind, everything was going great. She was like, ‘What the hell is going on.’ Is?'”
Paul alleged that Allman “cried for about an hour” before he could muster the courage to tell her, “I’m an addict.”
“The good news is that I’m madly in love with you, but the bad news is that I have a problem,” he told her.
A “disagreeing” Cher reportedly said, “It’s OK – we can beat him.”
“You don’t understand,” she pleaded. “I’ll steal your mom’s TV.”
Paul claimed that Cher believed this was an obstacle they could overcome together.
“Their response was like, ‘It’s OK, it’s a problem, and we’ll fix it,'” he explained. “He understood it as a problem, but he thought it was something where you go to the doctor, you can go to rehab, and you’ll be better. She didn’t understand…and Greg talked about it so openly…from the beginning of their relationship, it was influenced by his drug abuse.’
The second part of Cher’s memoir is scheduled to be published in 2025.
