Cher has revealed that her ex-husband Sonny Bono “seriously considered” killing her at the end of their tumultuous marriage.
It happened after Cher was so unhappy that she considered jumping off the balcony of her Las Vegas hotel room, she writes in Cher: A Memoir (Part 1).
Cher, now 78, was staying at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas in October 1972 when she told her husband that she wanted to sleep with Bill, her band's guitarist, and gave him a deadline for their marriage.
In fact, that was not the intention, Cher writes, but Sony insists She was so dominant that she was forbidden to wear perfume. — didn't heed his earlier pleas to let her go.
“The silence was deafening; [Sonny] “How long do you think it will take?”
“Two hours,” she answered. Sonny left and Cher cried on Bill's shoulder.
The couple, who appeared on the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, one of the biggest TV shows at the time, broke up but reached an agreement in which Cher continued to live with Sonny during the week to keep their marriage intact. . public image.
One morning at breakfast, Sonny surprised her by saying,
“He laughed a little when he saw it, and so did I. It was crazy for him to say that to me,” Cher wrote.
“He went on to say, “I thought I would plead insanity like a spade coolie and get seven years in prison before being released. You can get the show.”
However, Cher surprised her estranged husband by confessing to him, “I meant to jump, so there was no need to push!''
Faced with a reality so harsh, “Within seconds we screamed. No one who saw our reaction during what was the darkest moment of our marriage could understand.” I guess.”
Cher writes: “I never thought for a second that Sonny actually pushed me off the balcony, but I'm sure it crossed his mind, and he knew it crossed my mind to jump. What can I do but laugh?”
And while Cher eventually entered into a relationship with guitarist Bill, she also learned that Sonny had been sleeping with Bill's girlfriend as revenge.
Sonny and Cher met when she was 16 and he was 27. Offering him a bed in exchange for being his cook and housekeeper, she lived with him and they were married from 1964 to 1975.
Cher also reveals in the book that Sonny cheated on her throughout their marriage.
Cher and her assistant grabbed Sonny and fled to her mother's house, only to be told by her mother that she had heard about Sonny's infidelity.
When Cher confronts him, he blames her for not having enough sex.
Sonny died in a skiing accident in 1998.
