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Cher looks back on her second marriage – and what went wrong.
The singer opened up about her relationship with Gregg Allman in her bestselling book “Cher: The Memoir, Part One” and why she said “I do” so quickly.
According to the book, Cher’s divorce from ex-husband Sonny Bono was finalized in June 1975 when she had already started dating the rocker.
The now 78-year-old admitted she had some reservations about her blossoming romance with the Allman Brothers Band singer.
Cher reflected on her second marriage in the bestseller “Cher: The Memoir, Part One.” (Getty Images)
“I didn’t know if my relationship with Gregory would last or not,” the star wrote People magazine on Wednesday.
“I lived each day as it came,” she said. – Then I found out that I was pregnant and we decided to get married.
According to the media, Cher wanted to get married if she had a child.
Cher married Gregg Allman a few days after her divorce from Sonny Bono. (Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
“I was constantly putting one foot in front of the other,” wrote Cher, as quoted by the newspaper. “The future is never set in stone. I did what I thought was right.”
The book stated that Cher’s sister Georganne “Gee” and her friend Paulette looked at the singer “as if I had gone to an alternate universe” after they told them she was ready to tie the knot. In response, Cher said, “Come on, let’s do it.”
The newspaper reports that the wedding took place a few days after Cheri’s divorce from Bono.
– There was nothing romantic about our wedding day – the Oscar winner admitted.
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The union was affected by Gregg Allman’s addiction. (Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
Nine days after their wedding, Cher filed for divorce. They reconciled.
In 1976, the couple had a son, Elijah Blue Allman. However, they broke up forever in 1979.
The New York Post previously reported that the “Believe” singer initially filed for divorce after allegedly finding a “plastic bag full of white powder” that belonged to her husband.
Things only got worse when she later learned that Allman had a crippling addiction to heroin.
Nine days after the couple said “I do,” Cher filed for divorce. They reconciled. (David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images)
“[I] he told him over the phone, ‘I’m so tired of this, Gregory. I’m so tired of going to rehab with you,’ she recalled, as quoted by the newspaper. “He was quiet on the other end of the line. “But I’m going on,” he said quietly.”
“His answer stopped me in my tracks because it was true,” Cher continued. “He kept going to rehab, kept trying to get clean, kept trying despite his past failures. In that moment, instead of thinking about my own exhaustion, I felt for him.”
Cher wrote that her “breaking point” came after Allman had a “paranoid breakdown” one night.
“[He] he insisted he saw men with guns in the yard,” the Grammy winner wrote.
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The couple broke up forever in 1979. (Richard Creamer/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
She called the moment “the last straw.”
“It [was] it’s not safe for kids,” Cher said. “It only happened once, but I couldn’t risk it.”
“I’m no angel” The singer died in 2017 from liver cancer. He was 69 years old.
Alan Paul, author of “Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the ’70s,” previously told Fox News Digital that the late star “never stopped loving” Cher.
Author Alan Paul claims Gregg Allman “never stopped loving” Cher. (Harry Langdon/Getty Images)
“Gregg didn’t like to talk about Cher that much,” Paul said. “People took it as if she didn’t like them, that they were aggressive towards her or something. I don’t think that was ever the case. I think it was the opposite.”
Paul said that looking at their marriage, it was clear that neither of them was ready for what was to come.
“Gregg was a real drug addict at the time and he was struggling to overcome it,” he explained. “He’s been in and out of rehab a few times. He’s had periods where he’s been able to overcome it. He’s been very open about it. Cher, even though she’s been in Hollywood and a celebrity since she was 16-17, she was quite naive. She wasn’t understood what that meant.”
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Cher and Gregg Allman got married in Las Vegas. The celebration, like their marriage, was short. (Archive photo by Michael Ochs)
“Gregg told her at one point, early in their relationship, ‘Just go home. Think this was a trip to Disneyland. It was fun while it lasted. Now go home,'” Paul said. “He couldn’t bring himself to tell her he was an addict. Cher is completely devastatedangry, blown away. Everything is going great in her mind. She basically says, ‘What the hell is going on?'”
Paul stated that Allman “cried for almost an hour” before he got up the courage to tell her, “I’m a junkie.”
“The good news is that I’m mad at you, but the bad news is that I have a problem,” he told her.
Unfazed, Cher reportedly said: “It’s okay – we can beat it.”
Gregg Allman died in 2017. (Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
“You don’t understand,” he pleaded. “I’d steal your mom’s TV.”
Paul claimed Cher was convinced it was a hurdle they could overcome together.
Cher, by then a mother of two, struggled with Gregg Allman’s addiction. (Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
“Her reaction was like, ‘That’s OK, that’s a problem and we’re going to fix it,'” he explained. “She saw it as a problem, but she thought it was something where you go to the doctor, you can go to rehab and you’ll get better. She didn’t understand… And Gregg was so open about it… From the very beginning of their relationship was overshadowed by his drug use.”
Part two of Cher’s memoirs it is scheduled to be published in 2025.
