Amid the glamour of Cher’s new memoir, Cher: The Memoir (Part One), revelations about her relationship to first husband Sonny Bono emerge to depict a tumultuous and often dark marriage.
takes us through the first 34 years of her life. With vivid descriptions, hyperspecific recall, and frequent run-ins with Hollywood legends, the memoir is a juicy, wild ride, taking the reader through abuse and poverty and wealth and glamour. The woman hasThe book also offers insight into the relationship that first brought her into the public eye: Her marriage with Sonny, also known as Salvatore Phillip Bono. The pair first met in 1962, when Cher was 16 and Sonny was 27.
She doesn’t directly describe their sexual relationship, but when writing about the end of their marriage in the mid-1970s, she recounts sleeping with Bill, a guitarist from their band. She doesn’t go into detail, but everything we need to know is communicated with one devastating sentence: “I knew then that I would never have sex with Sonny again.
She also says that after the end of their relationship, a mutual friend admitted to her that “throughout the time we were together, Sonny had been with dancers, actresses, waitresses, and even hookers in our home and on the road.” While Cher maintains she had no idea he was cheating so often and “couldn’t imagine where he found the time,” she also writes that he blamed her for his cheating, telling her, “I wouldn’t have had to look outside our marriage if I was sexually satisfied.
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