In a shocking admission from her recently published memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part One, Cher has disclosed that she lost her virginity at the age of 14 in order to exact revenge on her older partner.
The 78-year-old music legend described how, in the early 1960s, she started dating a “cute” Italian high school senior, but she ultimately chose to “loan her virginity” to him after he made her look foolish in front of his friends.
“A cute son who was a senior in high school lived with an Italian family on our street,” she adds. I gave him tools, and he worked on his hot rod on the weekends. He would then visit my room, kiss me, and ask me to hold his other equipment, but I would refuse. I preferred his black roadster to his.
The primary topic of conversation among the girls at school at the time was how they spent their weekends playing with boys but never got to “fourth base,” so sex wasn’t exactly off my mind.
Everything seemed too informal to me, as if they were crossing items off a list. I told them, “You’re so childish,” since I had had enough of their euphemisms as a sportsperson. You fools aren’t playing baseball. You’re having sex! Joe DiMaggio, after all, who did they think they were?
When his friends were around, the neighbor would treat me like a shameful child, even if he was pleasant enough when we were by ourselves.
He answered, “All right, let me get Cher,” when his friends proposed going to Bob’s Big Boy one day. “You’re going to take that kid?” they asked, laughing, and he left me. I had revenge sex with him because I was so hurt by what he did.
I would have done it one of the five hundred times he had requested, but I had never wanted to. However, I was so upset over being fired that I made the decision to lend him my virginity, if nothing else.
After the “massively overrated experience” ended, Cher claimed to have fired the adolescent, writing: “I asked him, “Is that it? Are we done? I then instructed him to leave and never return. He had made me feel discarded, and I wanted him to feel the same way. I never spoke to him again, despite his constant attempts to make amends.
“Back in school, I told my friends that they should continue kissing and that the “thing” they were talking about all the time wasn’t a big deal.”
Over her decades-long career, Cher has regrettably experienced many heartbreaks, beginning with her first marriage to Sonny Bono, whom she met when she was just 16 and he was 27.
The two quickly fell in love, got married in 1964, and a year later established the musical combination Sonny & Cher, which became one of the greatest acts ever and catapulted both of them into the spotlight.
Their relationship, however, began to deteriorate behind the scenes as their careers took off; Cher subsequently said that Sonny “didn’t allow her to do anything except work” and that he didn’t offer her “any freedom” during the height of their fame.
The 78-year-old music legend described how, in the early 1960s, she started dating a “cute” Italian high school senior, but she ultimately chose to “loan her virginity” to him after he made fun of her in front of his friends.
After the “massively overrated experience” ended, Cher claimed to have fired the adolescent, writing: “I asked him, “Is that it? Are we done? Then, as shown in the 2010 photo, I advised him to go home and never return.
Over the course of her decades-long career, Cher has regrettably experienced many heartbreaks. Her first marriage to Sonny Bono, whom she met when she was just 16 and he was 27, is shown in a 1972 photo with their son Chaz Bono.
Cher and Gregg Allman were married from 1975 to 1978. They are shown together in 1976 with their son, Elijah Blue.
In addition, she accused him of being unfaithful and acknowledged that she had considered suicide at one point because of how horrible things had gotten.
The two finally parted ways in 1974, but Cher took yet another hit when it came to light during the divorce process that he controlled 95% of the money they had earned together, with his lawyer owning the remaining 5%.
Cher had nothing at all after their breakup, save for a shattered heart, yet she persisted and went on to become one of the most successful musicians of all time.
Her brief romance with business tycoon David Geffen, who came out as gay after they split up, her marriage to musician Gregg Allman, which ended because of his drug use, and her relationship with Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, who allegedly cheated on her with a fan, are just a few of her other failed relationships.
Cher eventually left David for Gregg, a musician who played with the Allman Brothers Band.
The two fell in love quickly after she and her ex-boyfriend David went to one of Gregg’s shows at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
He then described the night they met to Rolling Stone, saying, “She smelled like I would imagine a mermaid would smell.”
But because he “passed out in the bathroom, high on heroin,” he called their first encounter a “disaster.”
Nevertheless, two months after they began dating, the couple decided to tie the knot in a Las Vegas wedding at Caesars Palace on June 30, 1975.
Gregg’s drug use, however, caused things to go south very fast. He told Rolling Stone, “There was one problem – she didn’t realize that I was a hop-head.”
“Look, I have something to tell you,” I said to her when I woke up one morning. I have a drug addiction. She said, “Well, how do you fix that?”
I didn’t have much more to say than “Well.” “I know what we’ll do,” she told him. “I’ll have my doctor friend give you a large prescription for Quaaludes, and you can simply sleep through it when we return to Los Angeles. It will all be over when you awaken.
“What the hell, I tried it, but it obviously didn’t work.” Nevertheless, Cher seemed genuinely thrilled that I had come clean to her about my addiction.
Their relationship continued after they decided to file for divorce nine days into their marriage. After reconciling a month later, they welcomed a son, Elijah Blue, into the world in 1976.
In 1977, they also put out a collaborative album titled Two the Hard Way. However, they formally parted ways in 1979 after four years of dating.
“We experienced both good and bad times,” he remarked. We simply differed from one another in many ways. I apologize, but she’s not a very good singer, so I was actually relieved that she never asked me what I thought of her singing.
Since late 2022, Cher has been seeing 38-year-old music producer Alexander “AE” Edwards, who was photographed last month.
In retrospect, I believe I was looking for a friend, even if I had to get married to one. The problem is that I adore ladies. I always have.
‘I just didn’t have the juice anymore,’ Cher said enthusiastically in an interview with People after her time with Gregg. He is the most kind, caring, and kind father and husband. However, all goes to s*** when he forgets.
I never loved someone as much as I loved him, which is why I still care a lot about him. But I no longer love him.
Since late 2022, Cher has been dating 38-year-old music producer Alexander “AE” Edwards.