iIn her new book, Cher: The Memoir, Part One, Cher reflects on dark times in her former marriage to late singer, actor and politician, Sonny Bono.
Upon the memoir’s Tuesday (November 19) debut, excerpts were released in which the 78-year-old sharing that Bono, whom she divorced in 1975, “seriously thought” about killing her, by throwing her off a balcony, as their marriage went south. Bono died in January 1998 after he sustained injuries from hitting a tree while skiing.
According to TMZ, Bono’s confession was made after Cher admitted to wanting to sleep with their guitarist, Bill.
“He laughed a little at that and so did I. It was crazy that he was telling me,” Cher wrote. “He went on: ‘I figured I’d plead insanity like Spade Cooley and get seven years in jail before they released me. Then I’d get a book deal and my own show.'”
Cher responded by telling her then-husband that “there would have been no need to push [her]” because she was “gonna jump” regardless.
After calling the conversation the “darkest moment” of their marriage, she continued, “I don’t think for a minute that Sonny would have actually pushed me off the balcony, but I’m sure it crossed his mind, and he knew that jumping off had also crossed mine. What else could we do but laugh?”
As Cher wrote, per TODAY, the singer was 26 and felt as though she was trapped in a “loveless marriage.” With Bono, Cher has a transgender son, Chaz Bono, 55, while she also shares a son, Elijah Allman, 48, with her late ex-husband, Gregg Allman, who died in 2017.
At one point, Cher had suicide ideation while in a Las Vegas hotel room.
“I stepped barefoot onto the balcony of our suite and stared down. I was dizzy with loneliness. I saw how easy it would be to step over the edge and simply disappear,” Cher wrote pertaining to the unhappiness in her marriage to Bono. “For a few crazy minutes I couldn’t imagine any other option.”
Cher added that she’d neared this breaking point “five or six times,” but thought about her child, her mother, Georgia Holt, and half-sister Georganne LaPiere, along with fans who may feel like suicide was “a viable solution.”
But after multiple close attempts at suicide, Cher wrote that “one morning everything changed.”
“That night between shows I went out on the balcony again and this time I thought, I don’t have to jump off, I can just leave him,” she wrote.
Even while their marriage reached a dissolution, the ex-spouses hosted variety shows, Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour from 1971 to 1974, and The Sonny & Cher Show from 1976 to 1977. The couple met when Cher was 16 and Bono was 27, with the “Believe” singer originally moving in with him as a cook and housekeeper.
Some years after their divorce, Cher recalled that Bono came to her home and apologized for his misdeeds in their marriage.
“He showed up on my doorstep in tears. Sitting in my kitchen, he said to me, ‘I’m sorry for what I did to you. I was dishonest and I had all those women, and I didn’t think how it might affect our relationship,’” she wrote.
Although Cher “never thought” she would receive an apology from Bono, which “couldn’t change anything,” it felt “good to know deep down inside that he’d realized for the first time how hurtful what he’d done was and was genuinely sorry.”
Cher is now in a relationship with Def Jam Records VP of A&R, Alexander “A.E.” Edwards.
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