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So when it came time to write her memoir, a single volume just wasnt going to cut it.
(The rest will follow in part two next year.)
Here are 14 of the best.
Her mother named her after Lana Turners daughter.
My mothers name is Lynda, so how about Cherilyn?
Except that last part didnt stick.
I was only a teenager, and I was in a lot of pain, Chers mother told her.
Give me a break.
Her mom turned down Desi Arnaz and Howard Hughes.
Georgia got regular work onI Love Lucybecause Lucille Ball liked her.
But on set, she also got Desis attention.
And he was far from the only one.
Remember, he was married to Harriet in real life too!
Not long after, Holt turned down a come-on from the producer Howard Hughes.
She stowed away on a train as a kid.
One day after school, Cher decided she wanted to run away.
There, they spotted a train.
Before Id given it any thought and allowing Anita no time to argue, I yelled, Come on!
and gave Anita a boost up with my cupped hands, Cher writes.
Soon, the train started.
She got grounded for going out with Warren Beatty.
When youre driving in Hollywood, the target of your road rage just might be a heartthrob actor.
So she asked Beatty for a cigarette, and he invited her back to his place.
They ate cheese and crackers, kissed, and went swimming (she borrowed Natalie Woods swimsuit).
She literally melted in front of my eyes.
Ten minutes later, she was inviting him over.
When she hung up, she cried, Why didnt you tell me you were with Warren Beatty?
Diana Vreeland loved her but Richard Avedon said shed never be on the cover ofVogue.
After singing, Cher went to a mammoth bedroom where the women were fixing their makeup before dessert.
You are beautiful, Cher writes.
Why arent you a model?
Richard must see you!
She wasnt too impressed by Sonnys talent.
If you couldnt tell from all the ribbing during their routines, Cher didnt thinkthathighly of Sonnys musical abilities.
He would chord with his right hand and just use the index finger of his left.
Sonny once burned her tennis clothes.
Sonny set her up with a coach, and she never played with anyone else.
Peering closer, I saw that Sonny was stoking the incinerator in the back yard.
Id so enjoyed my lessons.
I couldnt believe he was being so controlling.
I felt utterly betrayed.
When she had a hemorrhage after giving birth, Sonny wasnt around.
Cher struggled with pregnancies, having multiple miscarriages before she finally gave birth to her first child, Chaz.
Her first night home from the hospital, she had a hemorrhage and passed out on the bathroom floor.
But Sonny had gone out, so she stayed there until he got back to call the doctor.
Phil Spector threatened her with a gun.
Cher got her start in music singing forPhil Spector.
When Spector released it without their labels permission, Cher went to his house to reason with him.
After she told him the issue, he started to act weird, she writes.
He told me he could do whatever he wanted.
He said our record companies could sue him if they didnt like it.
Then he picked up a revolver that I hadnt previously noticed lying on the green felt.
You cant pull that shit on me, you asshole.
This is me, Cher, okay?
Youve known me since I was sixteen and youre going to make a run at do this with me?
Cher then got the hell out of there, unharmed.
She took Chaz to Playboy Mansion as a child but it was entirely innocent.
Ourlittle girl hadknown and loved Hef her whole life, Cher writes.
She had the worst first date with Gregg Allman.
They started the evening at Dinos on Sunset Boulevard.
We sat looking at each other, but neither of us could think what to say, Cher writes.
Trying a line on me, he said hed fly me to Hawaii for the weekend.
Does that work on other girls?
I asked, knowing the answer was yes.
Afterward, they went to a party at the Continental Hyatt.
When Gregory tried to kiss me, I told him to stop.
Whoa, dude, I said.
You know what, why dont you just take me home?
She got divorce advice from Lucille Ball then gave advice to Tina Turner.
Fuck him, youre the one with the talent.
I looked at her and told her, I just walked out and kept going.
She and Carol Burnett had a chicken joke.
We had loose chickens walking all over the set.
The studio wasnt thrilled, but we were having a great time.
Lord only knows what happened to them.
She couldnt get acting work for years.
Cher dreamed of being an actor long before she took the leap to the big screen.
I might have had an Emmy, but my friends had Oscars, she writes.
(Hollywood problems.)
She remembers trying to get movie roles for five years but writes that she couldnt even get an agent.
Im really talented, and one day youre gonna be sorry.)
(His girlfriend, Barbra Streisand, got the role anyway.)
during a meeting, and she got the fuck out of there.
Later, Cher ran into her old friendFrancis Ford Coppolaafter a concert.
