Cher Was 'Not Sure I Even Saw a Future' with Gregg Allman When She Was Pregnant and Married Him: 'Let's Just Do This'
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12/25/2024 12:30 PM
"I did what I thought was the right thing to do," the pop icon wrote in her memoir, 'Cher: The Memoir, Part One'
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Cher and Gregg Allman in January 1977Cher is reflecting on her second marriage.
In her bestselling memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the multi-hyphenate reflected on her relationship with the late Gregg Allman and how quickly she decided to wed the rocker.
Her divorce from her ex-husband Sonny Bono was finalized in June 1975, and Cher, 78, had already been dating Allman by then. "It had taken so long and had been so convoluted that I felt relief when it was over" she writes.
However, Cher had some reservations about her relationship with the Allman Brothers Band singer.
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"I didn't know whether my relationship with Gregory would last or not. I was living each day as it came," she writes. "Then I found out I was pregnant, and we decided to get married." Cher said everything was arranged for them to tie the knot soon after.
Her sister Gee and friend Paulette looked at Cher "as if I'd gone into an alternate universe" when she made the announcement. "Come on, let's just do this," she told them as they prepared to go to Las Vegas.
"I just kept putting one foot in front of the other," she writes. "The future is never written in stone. I did what I thought was the right thing to do."
The "Believe" singer wanted to be married if she was having a baby.
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The wedding ceremony was short and the small bridal party flew back to California afterwards. "There was nothing romantic about our wedding day," the Oscar winner notes of the 1975 wedding, which took place days after her divorce from Bono.
Cher filed to dissolve the marriage nine days after their wedding but then reconciled. The couple welcomed their son, Elijah Blue Allman, in 1976 and would remain married until 1979.
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Cher and Gregg Allman in 1977Allman died in 2017 at 69 years old following complications from liver cancer, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Elsewhere in Cher's memoir, the singer recalls her relationship with Gene Simmons, taking a drunken John Lennon to the Playboy Mansion and her first impression of Dolly Parton, among other anecdotes.
Cher: The Memoir, Part One is available for purchase wherever books are sold. Part two of Cher's memoir is expected to be published in 2025.
