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After Cher’s mother she was the mother of all spells, georgia holtdiscovered that his underage daughter was having an affair with Sonny Bono.
New Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – born Cheryl Sarkeesian – was only 16 when she met 27-year-old Bono in a coffee shop. But before this iconic duo reaches chart-topping success “I got You Babe” In 1965, she was a child at that time.
“I lied,” Cher, 78, admitted in an interview with Anthony Mason.cbs sunday morning” to promote “Cher: The Memoir,” On Tuesday, November 19. “I lied to her many times. I told her I was 18 and then someone said, ‘You know, I don’t think she’s 18.’
“So I said, ‘Well, I’m not 18 but it’s my birthday next month’ – which was true – ‘and I’m going to be 18.’ And then I was 17. And my mom told him she was going to put him in jail.”
Cher originally moved in with Bono as a live-in housekeeper, with the agreement that she would cook and clean in exchange for her rent.
But it was hardly “love at first sight” for the couple, who were married from 1964 to 1975, before becoming an iconic music and TV couple.
“I thought it was like when Tony met Mariah,” Cher said, referencing the star-crossed “West Side Story” couple. “I mean, everyone disappeared and it was just the two of us. But he didn’t like me.”
In fact, Bono was candid about this.
“He said, ‘You know, you can come and stay with me.’ And I was like, ‘Okay,'” she recalled. “And he went, ‘No, no. I don’t find you particularly attractive.’ So I was upset and happy at the same time.
However, “Faith” singer She believes their relative youth was part of the connection between the two, before they made hits like “The Beat Goes On” and “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour” on CBS.
“He was kind of a childish person,” she said. “He had to be real with me because I didn’t expect anything. I didn’t want money, I didn’t think about anything, you know. And all these other women who were his age wanted him to be bigger.”
Cher gives a particular example of when she “just painted watercolors all day” with Bono.
“We [were] Trying to make it right,” she said. “And I don’t think so [older] Women wanted to do this.”
and bono – who died in a skiing accident In 1998 – Cher was worried about becoming more of a woman than a girl. “I was like his friend, and I was just a kid,” she said. “And the first time he saw me in a bathing suit, his mouth dropped open. And his face was very sad.
Now, Cher prefers younger men Dated hip-hop producer Alexander “AE” Edwards – 40 years her junior – since meeting at Paris Fashion Week in 2022.
“When I was younger, boys my age didn’t like me,” she says told the New York Times“And then when I got older, I didn’t like men my age.”
