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Join Telegram ChannelCher looks back on her second marriage – and what went wrong.
The singer reflected on her relationship with Gregg Allman in her bestselling book, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One” and why she said “yes” so quickly.
According to the book, Cher's divorce from ex-husband Sonny Bono was finalized in June 1975, after she had already started dating the rocker.
The 78-year-old admitted she had some reservations about her budding romance with the Allman Brothers Band singer.
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Cher reflected on her second marriage in the bestselling 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 Wednesday by People magazine.
“I lived each day as it came,” she shared. “Then I found out I was pregnant and we decided to get married.”
According to the outlet, Cher wanted to get married if she was going to have a baby.
Cher married Gregg Allman days after her divorce from Sonny Bono was finalized. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“I kept putting one foot in front of the other,” Cher wrote, as quoted by the outlet. “The future is never set in stone. I did what I thought was the right thing to do.”
The book noted that Cher's sister Georganne “Gee” and her friend Paulette looked at the singer “like I had stepped into an alternate universe” after she told them she was ready to get married. In response, Cher said, “Come on, let's do this.”
The outlet noted that the wedding took place days after Cher's divorce from Bono.
“There was nothing romantic about our wedding day,” the Oscar winner admitted.
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The union was plagued by Gregg Allman's addiction. (Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Nine days after their wedding, Cher filed for dissolution of the marriage. They reconciled.
The couple welcomed a son, Elijah Blue Allman, in 1976. However, they decided to call it quits for good in 1979.
The New York Post previously reported that the “Believe” singer initially filed for divorce after allegedly finding a “plastic bag filled with white powder” belonging to her spouse.
Things only got worse when she later learned that Allman suffered from a crippling heroin addiction.
Nine days after the couple said “I do,” Cher filed for dissolution of the marriage. They reconciled. (David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images)
“[I] told him on the phone, “I’m so tired of doing this, Gregory. I'm so tired of going to rehab with you,'” she recalled, quoted by the media. “He was silent on the other end of the line. “But I continue,” he said softly.
“Her response stopped me in my tracks because it was true,” Cher continued. “He continued to go to rehab, continued to try to get clean, continued to try despite his failures in the past. In that moment, instead of thinking about my own exhaustion, I sympathized with him.”
Cher wrote that her “breaking point” came after Allman suffered “a paranoid breakdown” one night.
“[He] insisted he saw armed men in the backyard,” the Grammy winner wrote.
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The couple decided to separate for good in 1979. (Richard Creamer/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
She called the moment “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
“He [was] It's not safe for children,” Cher said. “It only happened once, but I couldn't take the risk.”
The “I'm No Angel” 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 love” Dear.
Author Alan Paul claimed that Gregg Allman “never stopped loving” Cher. (Harry Langdon/Getty Images)
“Gregg didn’t like talking about Cher that much,” Paul said. “People took that as not liking her, or being aggressive towards her, or something like that. I don't think that was ever the case. I think it was the opposite.”
Paul said looking back at their marriage, it was clear neither of them were prepared for what was to come.
“Gregg was a real drug addict at the time and he was having a hard time getting over it,” he said. “He was in and out of rehab several times. He had periods where he was able to overcome that problem. He talked about it very openly. Dear, even though she was in Hollywood and was a celebrity from age 16-17 years old, was quite naive. 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 brief. (Photo by Michael OchsArchives)
“Gregg, at one point early in their relationship, told her, 'Go home. Pretend it was a trip to Disneyland. It was fun while it lasted. Now go home.'” , Paul said. “He couldn't bring himself to tell her that he was a drug addict. Cher is completely crushed, angry, blown away. In her mind, everything is fine. She's basically like, 'What's going on? “
Paul alleged that Allman “cried for almost an hour” before he could muster up the courage to tell him, “I'm a drug addict.”
“The good news is that I’m madly in love with you, but the bad news is that I have a problem,” he tells her.
An “indifferent” Cher reportedly said, “It’s okay, we can beat this.”
Gregg Allman died in 2017. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“You don’t understand,” he pleaded. “I would steal your mom’s TV.”
Paul said Cher was convinced this was an obstacle they could overcome together.
Cher, then a mother of two, struggled with Gregg Allman addiction. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“His reaction was like, 'Okay, it's a problem and we're going to fix it,'” he said. “She understood that it was 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 talked about it so openly …From the very beginning of their relationship, it was overshadowed by his drug use.”
The second part of Cher's memoir is expected to be published in 2025.