Cher is considering her second marriage.
In his bestselling memoir, Cher: A Memoir, The first partthe multi-hyphenate reflected on her relationship with the late Gregg Allman and how quickly she decided to marry the rocker.
Her divorce from ex-husband Sonny Bono was finalized in June 1975, and Cher (78) was already dating Allman at the time. “It took so long and was so intricate that I was relieved when it was over,” she writes.
However, Cher had some reservations about her relationship with the Allman Brothers Band singer.
Cher and Gregg Allman in 1978.
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“I didn’t know if my relationship with Gregory would last or not. I lived each day as it came,” she writes. – Then I found out I was pregnant and we decided to get married. Cher said it was all set to get married soon after.
Her sister Gee and friend Paulette looked at Cher “like I’d gone to an alternate universe” when she made the announcement. “Come on, let’s do it,” she told them as they prepared to leave for Las Vegas.
“I kept putting one foot in front of the other,” she writes. “The future is never set in stone. I did what I thought was right.”
The “Believe” singer wanted to be married if she had a child.
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The wedding ceremony was short and the small bridal party flew back to California afterwards. “There was nothing romantic about our wedding day,” the Oscar winner notes of the 1975 nuptials, which took place days after her divorce from Bono.
Cher filed for divorce nine days after their wedding, but then reconciled. The couple had a son, Elijah Blue Allman, in 1976 and would remain married until 1979.
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Cher and Gregg Allman in 1977.
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Allman died in 2017 at the age of 69 after complications from liver cancer, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Elsewhere in Cher’s memoir, the singer recalls her relationship with Gene Simmons, taking a drunk John Lennon to the Playboy Mansion and her first impression of Dolly Parton, among other anecdotes.
Cher: Memoirs, Part One it is available for purchase wherever books are sold. The second part of Cher’s memoir is expected to be published in 2025.
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