Before we’d wrapped filming for the season, I got a call back from Freddie. He said, “I hear you’re making a deal with NBC for The Cher Show.” This was the first I’d heard of that. “That’s not true,” I told him. It turned out that someone was spreading rumors I already had a deal going with NBC. All I could do was tell him the truth and hope he believed me. “I promise you, Freddie, if there ever is a ‘Cher Show’ I’ll do it with CBS. It’s my home and I don’t want to go to the Valley.” He laughed, and I think that made him trust I was being honest.
