Trigger warning: This article contains descriptions of domestic violence
Music icon Cher details the first half of her life in her first memoir.
While the headlines have been on the rise, from the issue raised by the nuns for a short time to her difficult relationship with her mother, a big one has been the advice she gave to the departed. Tina Turner,
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in part one of Cher: memoirYesterday, the music icon wrote about Tina Turner’s two appearances on Cher’s self-titled TV show. During a visit, Tina asked Cher for help in hiding her scar from her then-husband Ike Turner.
“One day when we were shooting, she came into my room before we finished asking if I had hidden anything. There were injury marks on her arm which she did not want to show on camera. I told him I had something that would work,” Cher wrote.
Tina asked Cher, “Tell me how you left him.”
“I looked at him and told him, ‘I just walked out and kept walking,'” she wrote.
Cher: memoir Details the life story of the singer, actress, TV host and fashion icon. From her nomadic childhood, which included a time of extreme poverty, to her success in Sonny & Cher and eventual divorce from Sonny Bono, to her acting career in the 1980s, part one of the memoir is already making headlines for its candid details .
In particular, the memoir paints a complex and disturbing picture of her decade-long marriage to Sonny Bono from 1964 to 1975.
She describes Sonny as controlling and short-tempered, who often restricts his interactions with other people, including his band members. In a shocking incident, he burnt her tennis clothes after seeing her socializing with her coach outside lessons.
Cher also shared the emotional and physical challenges she endured during her marriage, including her struggle to conceive and her difficult recovery after giving birth to their child, Chaz. On her first night home from the hospital, Sonny reportedly left her home alone and collapsed on the bathroom floor bleeding.
Cher wrote that Tina’s request reminded her of her once lucille ball was made When she wanted to leave Bono.
“I called Lucille Ball to ask for advice. I told her, ‘Lucy, I want to leave Sonny and I know you’re the only one in a similar position. What should I do?'”
“Lucy and her husband also became famous by working together as TV stars. And he was also a big womanizer. Then Lucy left him,” she writes.
The abuse Tina Turner suffered in her marriage to Ike is detailed in Turner’s memoir I, TinaThe story is inspired by the 1993 film What’s Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett.
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