In her new memoir, Cher: Part One, the 78-year-old actor reflected on marrying Allman in 1975, days after learning she was pregnant with their child, Elijah Blue Allman.
“I didn’t know whether my relationship with Gregory would last or not. I was living each day as it came,” she wrote. “Then I found out I was pregnant, and we decided to get married.”
Although Cher then filed for divorce, Allman later checked into rehab where the pair attended therapy and he opened up about the “pressure to be Mr. Cher.”
They reconciled and went to Jamaica for their “belated honeymoon,” but Cher saw Allman drinking alcohol during the trip, which led to an argument and her early departure from the vacation.
After that, Cher discovered that Allman was addicted to heroin, so she gave him an ultimatum, and he went to rehab again before their baby arrived.
“I don’t remember what date I’d chosen exactly. It was something arbitrary,” she wrote. “I had had it with us repeating the same pattern again and again, and had told him over the phone, ‘I’m just so tired of doing this, Gregory. I’m so tired of going to rehab with you.’ He was quiet on the other end of the line. ‘But I keep going,’ he said softly.
She continued: “His answer stopped me in my tracks, because it was true. He kept going to rehab, kept trying to get clean, kept making an effort despite failing in the past. In that moment, instead of thinking of my own exhaustion, I empathized with him.”
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