Cher is turning back time in her new memoir.
The singer breaks down her decision to file for divorce from her second husband, Gregg Allman, after only nine days of marriage in “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” telling readers she took “each day as it came.”
When the couple conceived son Elijah Blue Allman, now 48, in 1975, they decided to tie the knot “within a few days.”
The duo wed in Las Vegas that June — four days after Cher finalized her divorce from her first husband, Sonny Bono — with the bride recalling, “There was little about our wedding day that was romantic.There would be no honeymoon.”
The Goddess of Pop filed for divorce from the Allman Brothers Band member the following week after allegedly finding a “plastic bag full of white powder” in his toiletry bag and hearing from friends that he had intended to leave her.
The pair reconciled after Gregg went to rehab, but their “belated honeymoon” in Jamaica ended early when Cher allegedly saw her partner drinking.
When the “Believe” singer subsequently discovered that Gregg was addicted to heroin, she gave him an ultimatum.
“[I] told him over the phone, ‘I’m just so tired of doing this, Gregory. I’m so tired of going to rehab with you,’” she remembers. “He was quiet on the other end of the line. ‘But I keep going,’ he said softly.
“His answer stopped me in my tracks, because it was true,” Cher continues. “He kept going to rehab, kept trying to get clean, kept making an effort despite failing in the past. In that moment, instead of thinking of my own exhaustion, I empathized with him.”
The couple were still an item when their baby boy was born in 1976, joining Cher’s now-55-year-old son, Chaz Bono, whom she shared with Sonny.
“[My breaking] point came soon after when Gregory had a paranoid breakdown one night and insisted he saw men with guns in the backyard,” the Grammy winner writes, calling this moment “the last straw.”
She adds, “It [was] not safe for kids. It only happened once, but I couldn’t risk it.”
Cher separated from Gregg again, and their divorce was finalized in January 1979.
When the “I’m No Angel” singer died in 2017 of liver cancer at age 69, Cher attended his funeral.
Elsewhere in her memoir, she details her ups and downs with Sonny, whom she claimed “seriously thought” about killing her.
The “Strong Enough” singer, who is now dating music executive Alexander “AE” Edwards, also alleged that Lucille Ball encouraged her to leave her “I Got You Babe” collaborator, who died in a 1998 skiing accident.
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