In her memoir, Cher wrote about the moment she considered jumping off a hotel balcony in 1972 during a dark moment in her marriage to Sonny Bono.
and Bono 27 when they met in 1962; they had an unofficial wedding ceremony in 1964.) At the time, the couple was wildly popular thanks to their numerous hit songs and their smash variety TV show, Cher describes Bono as controlling in the book, writing that she began to feel “trapped” in their marriage. Standing on the balcony of her Vegas hotel, then just 26-years-old, Cher recalled: “I was dizzy with loneliness. I saw how easy it would be to step over the edge and simply disappear.
Cher said thoughts of her family kept her from going through with it, as well as the concern that “things like this could make people who look up to me feel that it’s a viable solution.” Cher also said her experience in Vegas led her to a particularly important realization. “I don’t have to jump off,” she wrote. “I can just leave him.” — arrives today, Nov. 19. The book covers her early life as Cherilyn Sarkisian through her rise to fame and relationship with Bono. Part two of the memoir is expected to be published next year. , where she spoke about her experience writing the book, admitting, “It was a bitch. It’s not going through your life that’s hard so much. But I did it a couple of times because the first time it didn’t work out.
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