Cher, Parade Magazine
While out promoting her movie Burlesque, Cher has been faced with questions regarding her daughter’s decision to become a man. So how has she as a mother adapted to this change? In an exclusive interview with Parade magazine, Cher talks about the sex change, Sonny Bono and that long list of sexy stars she got frisky with. Read the highlights below.
On Chastity’s decision to get a sex change:
“When Chaz first told me about wanting a sex change, I had a really hard time with it. We talked about the transgendered thing intermittently for years. She was unhappy. Plus, she was doing drugs. [Chaz was addicted to OxyContin]. I believed that once she stopped drugs, she would have a much better life and put the transgender idea on the back burner. She said to me, ‘If I’m ever going to do it, I’ve got to do it now. I’m 40.’ I went, ‘If you’ve got to do it, dear, you’ve got to do it.’ ”
On the name change:
“When I realized she was going to do it, it was rocky for me. I thought, What will the press do to her? What will they do to the two of us together? It’s going to be the biggest nightmare that will not stop. But the press was kinder than I thought they would be. It’s hard, ’cause she’s still my girl. But she has an inner strength and she’s a courageous person—she believes what she believes. She and her girlfriend came over for dinner last night. All of us were there, my boyfriend too.”
On Sonny’s control over her:
“He didn’t want me to grow up or have any freedom. I wasn’t allowed to do anything except work. We worked more than we lived.”
On Sonny Bono’s extracurriculars:
“Stardom made Sonny a huge womanizer. One woman, or even five, was not enough for him. I found all this out afterward. I asked him, ‘How did you manage the logistics?’ I was trusting and faithful with him. The truth is, I’m not so sure we should’ve ever been husband and wife.”
On contemplating suicide:
“I thought about jumping off a hotel balcony. Then I thought, No, I can just leave him. When I told Sonny, he said, ‘If you leave me, America will hate you and you won’t have a job.’ I went, ‘You know what, Sonny? I just don’t care!’ ”
On her second husband, rocker Gregg Allman:
“Gregory was a Southern gentleman who also happened to be a heroin addict. I kept going to rehab with him to help him try to kick drugs. It was very hard for him. Then Elijah was born, and a year later I left Gregory for good. As crazy as I was about him, I wasn’t going to let him be around my kids.”
On dating Warren Beatty, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, and Richie Sambora:
“I enjoyed them all! I never felt I chose badly, and I was always happy when the next man came along. I can usually last about two years with a man, and that’s it. The moment the relationship goes into the phase of more commitment, it changes.”
On Cher’s new man, Ron Zimmerman, a 52-year-old TV screenwriter she met online:
“Even though I’m older than him, I’d never before been with anybody over 30. Ron is short, a bit scraggly, like an absentminded professor. He’s the funniest person I have ever met, and the most eccentric—so bizarre and kind and very special.”
Gotta love Cher…one of the real fierce bitches left in the world!
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