In her new ebook Cher: The Memoir, Half 1, the music legend opened up concerning the downfall of their marriage.

Cher and Bono had been 16 and 27, respectively, after they met, and rose to fame thanks partly to the success of their hit track, “I Received You Babe,” earlier than discovering success with their selection present The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.

That they had an unofficial marriage ceremony in 1964, earlier than truly tying the knot in 1969.

Regardless of having a profitable skilled partnership, Cher writes within the ebook that Bono was controlling and that she usually felt trapped” in what she says was a “loveless marriage.”

Cher recalled a very troublesome time of their relationship in 1972, the place the then 26-year-old singer was Las Vegas for work with Bono when she reached her breaking level.

Stepping onto her resort balcony, Cher wrote she “was dizzy with loneliness.”

She continues, “I noticed how straightforward it might be to step over the sting and easily disappear. For just a few loopy minutes I could not think about every other choice. I did this 5 – 6 occasions.”

This was all after she says he “critically thought” of killing her and throwing her off the balcony.

“He laughed a little bit at that and so did I. It was loopy that he was telling me,” Cher writes. “He went on: ‘I figured I might plead madness like Spade Cooley and get seven years in jail earlier than they launched me. Then I might get a ebook deal and my very own present.’”

Bono didn’t the truth is undergo with it and neither did Cher, who says it was her family members — together with her then-young youngster Chaz, her mom Georgia and her sister Georganne — who introduced her again from the ledge.

“Issues like this might make individuals who look as much as me really feel that it is a viable resolution,” Cher provides earlier than noting that it was throughout that journey to Vegas that she had an epiphany: “I haven’t got to leap off. I can simply go away him.”

Cher and Bono quietly separated quickly after. They filed for divorce in 1974, earlier than finalizing their divorce in 1975 after a bitter custody battle of Chaz.

Regardless of their contentious break up, through the years to return, the pair would stay amicable co-parents and even reunited professionally for The Sonny & Cher Present.

It wasn’t till years later that Sonny, who died in a snowboarding accident in 1998, apologized to her, with the “Consider” singer telling PEOPLE in 2023 that he “pissed me off royally and harm me” however that they discovered peace.

“Sooner or later he got here into the kitchen at my home and mentioned, ‘Cher, I need to apologize. I noticed that I harm you in so some ways, and I used to be flawed,’” she recalled. “That went a good distance for me.”

The 2-part member is ready to observe “her extraordinary beginnings via childhood to assembly and marrying Sonny Bono — and divulges the extremely difficult relationship that made them world-famous, however ultimately drove them aside.”

To advertise the memoir, Cher will head out on a ebook tour, kicking off Wednesday Nov. 20 in New York Metropolis. She’ll then make stops in Englewood, N.J.; London; Beverly Hills, Calif.; and San Francisco.

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