Cher claims John Lennon once “stripped naked” and jumped into the pool at the Playboy Mansion.
Write in your next memoir Dear: The Memoirs – the first part of which is set to be released on November 19 – she explained how she met Lennon and Harry Nilsson in a Los Angeles restaurant in 1974 and invited them to the infamous mansion.
Although it's known for its wild parties, the trio attended one of the mansion's supposedly more laid-back “movie nights” with cocktails, dinner and screenings of new films.
According to Cher (via The mirror), when they arrived at the mansion, Lennon and Nilsson, who were both drunk, started chanting “Hef! Hey! Hey! ” with posh, exaggerated English accents, prompting him to lead them away from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and toward the “Grotto.”
She added: “Laughing and falling over each other, John and Harry followed me into the park. I sat them down inside the famous Grotto – it was like a huge cave with one end of the pool going into it – I went to get a drink and when I came back they were standing in the middle of the Grotto, naked but still in the water. , Thank God.
“I was trying not to laugh, but it was impossible not to because they were threatening to walk around the mansion naked. It took me a while to get them back into their clothes. It was like rounding up drunks.
The book is being released through Harper Collins, with part two published next year. You can pre-order Cher: The Memoirs, Part One ici.
A synopsis of the book reads: “With his characteristic honesty and humor, Dear: The Memoirs traces how this diamond in the rough managed, with no plan and little confidence, to become the pioneering superstar that the world could not ignore for over half a century.
He continued: “Cher: The Memoirs, Part One follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono – and reveals the very complicated relationship that made them world famous, but ultimately drove them apart.
« Dear: The Memoirs reveals the daughter, sister, wife, lover, mother and superstar. It's too big a life for just one book.
Meanwhile, after years of snobbery, Cher was recently finally inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. During the ceremony, Cher joined forces with Dua Lipa for a rendition of “Believe.”
Elsewhere, fans recently reacted to the omission of Lennon and George Harrison from the Beatles' new Grammy nomination for 'Now And Then'.
