Cher Considered Jumping Off a Las Vegas Balcony While ‘Trapped’ in ‘Loveless Marriage’ to Sonny Bono: ‘I Did This Five or Six Times’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Cher reveals in her recently released memoir, “Cher: The Memoir Part 1,” that she contemplated jumping off a balcony in Las Vegas amid her “loveless marriage” to Sonny Bono (via People).
Cher was 16 years old when she met Bono, then 27. The two were officially married in 1969, but Cher writes that by 1972 she felt “trapped” by her relationship to Bono.
She was 26 years old when she stepped onto her hotel balcony in Vegas and looked down. “I was dizzy with loneliness,” Cher writes. “I saw how easy it would be to step over the edge and simply disappear.
For a few crazy minutes I couldn’t imagine any other option. I did this five or six times.” What stopped Cher from jumping was thoughts of her loved ones, including her child Chaz and her sister Georganne and mother Georgia. “Things like this could make people who look up to me feel that it’s a viable solution,” Cher writes about stopping herself from jumping off the balcony.
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