Cher: Part One: The Memoir (The Cher Memoir Book 1)

by Cher

After Mom freed me from the nuns, she caught a train to Twin Falls, Idaho, where my grandpa Roy and uncle Mickey were living in squalor.

“It isn’t right, but you’re not going to change any of their minds, babe,” she told me quietly. “All you’ll do is ruin dinner.”

Years later somebody asked me if I left Sonny for another man, and I told them, “No. I left him for another woman. Me.”

I told the woman I’d first watched on TV as a kid that the older I got, the less nervous I was about failing in the eyes of the public. I was referring to playing the long game and how I’d developed a thick skin to some extent, with all the changes in my personal life and the attention I’d attracted. Having weathered countless storms over the years, emotional and financial, I never knew what was going to happen next. But I did know I’d survived and discovered that nothing could break me (unless something happened to my health or to my kids).

With her up until loss of health. That blows