{"id":118815,"date":"2024-11-19T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/19\/chers-memoir-is-coming-out-tuesday-but-she-hasnt-read-it\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:03:04","slug":"chers-memoir-is-coming-out-tuesday-but-she-hasnt-read-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/19\/chers-memoir-is-coming-out-tuesday-but-she-hasnt-read-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher’s memoir is coming out Tuesday \u2014 but she hasn’t read it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dey Street Books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cher<\/strong>‘s long-awaited book, Cher: The Memoir Part One, <\/em>arrives\u00a0Tuesday \u2014 but she has yet to read it.<\/p>\n

The book was first penned by a ghostwriter, but after Cher said it didn’t feel like “her,” she realized\u00a0her story\u00a0had to be told over two books. As Cher tells The<\/em> New York Times<\/em><\/a>, “Too much life. Lived too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the version that’s coming out on Tuesday was written over just four months, with the help of two more ghostwriters and weekly visits from Cher’s editor. “This book has exhausted me,” Cher tells the Times<\/em>. “It took a lot out of me.”<\/p>\n

Cher says she hasn’t read the final version of the book yet, but notes, “People can say what they want. It\u2019s who I am. I am who I am. I can\u2019t change it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part One<\/em> starts with Cher’s birth and ends in the 1980s. In between, she tells the story of her tumultuous childhood: When she was an infant, her father put her in an orphanage and then left town. Her waitress mother paid $4.50 a week toward her care and finally took her back home when she was able to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I learned early that most adults were unpredictable, so I couldn\u2019t count on them and had to be constantly vigilant,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n

When she met Sonny Bono<\/strong>, Cher thought she’d finally found the stability she craved, but eventually, she says, he became possessive and jealous. Then, Cher says, “He took all my money.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Bono died in 1998 and Cher tells the <\/span>Times,<\/span><\/em> “<\/span>To this day, I wish to God I could just ask, \u2018Son, at what point, during what day, did you go, “Yeah, you know what? I\u2019m going to take her money.”‘”<\/p>\n

Part Two<\/em> is due next year.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dey Street Books Cher‘s long-awaited book, Cher: The Memoir Part One, arrives\u00a0Tuesday \u2014 but she has yet to read it. The book was first penned by a ghostwriter, but after Cher said it didn’t feel like “her,” she realized\u00a0her story\u00a0had to be told over two books. As Cher tells TheRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}