Cher says in a note that Gregg Allman had already ended their relationship.
The 78-year-old “Believe” hitmaker talked about her marriage to the Allman Brothers Band singer in her new book Cher: The Memoir, Part 1, which will be published on Tuesday, November 19. She also talked about how it was hard for her ex-husband Sonny Bono to work with her again.
Shortly before the 1976 debut of the new Sonny & Cher show, Cher found out she was expecting a child. Allman wasn’t persuaded when she told him, and he declined to meet her when he got back to Los Angeles. The “I’ve Got You Babe” singer claimed that he was incensed that the media was “making a juicy new love triangle” between the three because of Cher and Bono’s new show.
“I have two choices—go back to Macon and be heartbroken and lonely, or stay here and be made a fool of, the latter of which I just can’t do because I’m a man and a damn good one,” the actress/musician finally found in a note from the “Ramblin’ Man” performer.
Moreover, he acknowledged that he hoped to “live with being a fool.”
Cher and Allman were married from 1975 to 1979 and died in 2017 at the age of 69.
Cher and Bono were married in 1975, a few days after their official divorce. Cher filed for divorce from Allman nine days later. After making amends, they stayed wed until 1979.
The Moonstruck actress described how Allman’s struggles with substance abuse damaged their relationship in a 2018 interview with the Daily Mail.
“It was really intense,” she informed me, adding that it’s difficult to be married to someone who does drugs. “I simply wasn’t meant to be with drugs.” I still think that was stupid. I saw far too many instances when it destroyed people’s lives. It made Gregory’s life miserable.
In 1976, Elijah Blue Allman, Cher and Allman’s first child, was born. In addition, they collaborated musically, putting out the duet album Two the Hard Way in 1977.
In July, Cher revealed that her two-part book would be published. “Her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono—and reveal the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous but eventually drove them apart” is what the blurb said the first chapter would cover.
According to the synopsis, her memoir will also highlight her “trademark honesty and humor” and describe how a “diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century.”
On Wednesday, November 20, Cher will begin her five-stop book tour in New York City.
