Cher looks back on her second marriage – and where it went wrong.
The singer reflected on her relationship with Gregg Allman in her best-selling book, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One” and why she said “I do” so quickly.
According to the book, Cher’s divorce from her ex-husband Sonny Bono was finalized in June 1975 when she started dating the singer.
The 78-year-old admitted he had doubts about blossoming into a romance with the Allman Brothers Band singer.
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Cher looked back on her second marriage in the best-selling book “Cher: The Memoir, Part One.” (Getty Images)
“I didn’t know if my relationship with Gregory would last or not,” the star wrote, quoted by People magazine on Wednesday.
“I was living each day as it came,” he said. “Then I found out I was pregnant, and we decided to get married.”
According to the source, Cher wanted to get married when she had a child.
Cher married Gregg Allman days after her divorce from Sonny Bono was finalized. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“I just kept putting one foot in front of the other,” Cher wrote, as quoted by the outlet. “The future is not written in stone. I did what I thought I should do.”
The publication noted that Cher’s sister Georgane “Gee” and her friend Paulette looked at the singer “as if I had entered another universe” after she told them she was ready to tie the knot. Cher replied, “Come on, let’s do this.”
The outlet noted that the wedding took place days after Cher and Bono’s divorce.
“There was nothing romantic about our wedding day,” the Oscar winner admitted.
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This union was plagued by Gregg Allman’s addiction. (Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Nine days after their wedding, Cher filed for divorce. They reconciled.
The couple welcomed a son, Elijah Blue Allman, in 1976. However, they stopped it for good in 1979.
The New York Post previously reported that the “Believe” singer filed for divorce after allegedly finding a “plastic bag full of white powder” belonging to her fiance.
Things got worse when he later learned that Allman was addicted to heroin.
Nine days after the couple said “I do,” Cher filed for divorce. They reconciled. (David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images)
“[I] she told him over the phone, ‘I’m tired of doing this, Gregory. I’m too tired to go to rehab with you,'” he recalled, as quoted by the outlet. “He was quiet on the other end of the line. ‘But I go on,’ he said calmly.
“His answer stopped me in my tracks because it’s true,” Cher continued. “He kept going to rehab, kept trying to get clean, kept making efforts despite failing in the past. In that moment, instead of thinking about my exhaustion, I felt for him.”
Cher wrote that her “tipping point” came after Allman had a “paranoid” attack one night.
“[He] he insisted that he saw men with guns in the back of the house,” the Grammy winner wrote.
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The couple decided to call it quits in 1979. (Richard Creamer/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
He called this time “the last straw.”
“That’s right [was] it’s not safe for kids,” Cher said. “It only happened once, but I couldn’t risk it.”
The “I’m No Angel” singer died in 2017 of 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.
Writer Alan Paul said that Gregg Allman “never stopped loving” Cher. (Harry Langdon/Getty Images)
“Gregg didn’t like to talk about Cher that much,” Paul said. “People take that as not liking him, being angry at him, or something. I don’t believe that was ever the case. I think it was the opposite.”
Paul said that looking at their wedding, it was clear that none of them were prepared for what was to come.
“At the time Gregg was a drug addict, and he was finding it hard to overcome,” he explained. “She was in and out of rehab several times. She had moments where she was able to win. She talked about that openly. Cher, even though she was in Hollywood and a celebrity since she was 16-17, she didn’t understand what that meant.”
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Cher and Gregg Allman got married in Las Vegas. The celebration, like their wedding, was short. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives)
“Gregg at one point, early in their relationship, says to her, ‘Just go home. Pretend this was a trip to Disneyland. It was fun while it lasted. Now go home,'” Paul said. “She couldn’t tell him that she was an addict. Cher is completely crushed, angry, blown away. In her mind, everything is fine. She’s basically like, ‘What the hell is going on?’
Paul alleged that Allman “cried for about an hour” before working up the courage to tell him, “I’m addicted.”
“The good news is that I’m madly in love with you, but the bad news is that I have a problem,” he told her.
A “nonchalant” Cher is said to have said, “Okay – we can beat that.”
Gregg Allman died in 2017. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“You don’t understand,” he pleaded. “I was going to steal your mother’s television.”
Paul said Cher was convinced it was an obstacle they could overcome together.
Cher, then a mother of two, was struggling with Gregg Allman’s addiction. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“His reaction was like, ‘Okay, it’s a problem, and we’re going to fix it,'” he explained. “He understood it as a problem, but he thought it was something where you go to the doctor, you can go to rehab, and you’ll get better. He didn’t understand … And Gregg talked openly about that … early in their relationship, it was overshadowed by his drug use.”
The second part of Cher’s memoir is scheduled to be published in 2025.
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