Cher felt exhausted from writing her memoir.
The 78-year-old star explored her life and career in the first volume of a two-part book simply titled “Cher” but admitted that combing through several decades of her life had left her tired.
She told the New York Times: “This book exhausted me. It made me lose a lot of things. Too much life. I’ve lived too long. People can say whatever they want. It’s what I am. I am who I am. I can’t change it.”
The “Believe” singer rose to fame as part of the duo Sonny and Cher alongside then-husband Sonny Bono – with whom she has a 55-year-old son, Chaz – but the couple had a tumultuous relationship that ended in divorce in 1975.
During their relationship, Sonny arranged their finances so that Cher would become his employee. She wasn’t aware of it at first, but now she wishes she could ask her late husband – who died in 1998 in a skiing accident at the age of 62 – why he acted the way he did.
She said: “He took all my money and said, ‘We’re husband and wife. Half the things are his, the other half are mine. It didn’t occur to me that there was another solution. To this day, I wish I could ask: “At what point, on what day, did you say to yourself, ‘Yeah, you know what? I’m going to take his money.’
The singer then married Gregg Allman that same year, and they had Elijah, 48, together, but they divorced in 1979.
