Cher implies she had abortion days after wedding to Gregg Allman in new memoir

Cher has implied she underwent an abortion just days after her wedding to her second husband, Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers.

The 78-year-old pop star pulled the curtain back on her love life in the newly-released first volume of her two-part autobiography, Cher.

Gregg and Cher were husband and wife from 1975 to 1979, in a relationship that was repeatedly buffeted by his addiction to heroin.

She impulsively married him after getting pregnant, exchanging vows with him in a Las Vegas ceremony ‘arranged within a few days’ of her learning she was expecting.

However, the morning after the wedding, Cher discovered white powder among Gregg’s personal belongings – even though she had previously helped him get sober.

Her husband’s renewed drug use, combined with her own misgivings about how her pregnancy would affect her career, led her to conclude that ‘I had to make a choice, and I knew what it was,’ she wrote without using the word ‘abortion’ outright.

Just one day after their wedding, Cher and Gregg had to be in different cities for work, leaving her faced with a ‘depressing’ sense of foreboding about their relationship. ‘I’m not sure I even saw a future with him at that point,’ she wrote.

That morning, she found ‘a plastic bag full of white powder’ in the Dopp kit he had left behind, intensifying her qualms.

‘I think when something like that happens, it tests the strength of a relationship and ours was not strong,’ observed Cher, whose father was also a heroin addict.