Cher and Bono eventually welcomed son Chaz in 1969, the same year they legally married after having a ceremony in their bathroom five years earlier. They ultimately separated in 1972 and filed for divorce two years later. Bono died in a skiing accident in 1998 at age 62.

I figured I’d plead insanity … Then I’d get a book deal and my own show,” Cher alleges Sonny told her after admitting to thinking about killing her.

In 1983, Georgia Holt, Cher, Chaz Bono and Sonny Bono made it a family outing at his Bono restaurant in Hollywood. Ron Galella Collection via Mama said lock you up. That was the mother of all mantras after Cher’s mom,

Cher released the first installment of a planned two-part memoir Tuesday, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” spanning roughly the first half of the 78-year-old entertainer’s life, with anecdotes about a marriage to Sonny Bono she called “ loveless ” that led her to consider suicide at the height of their television fame in the 1970s.

Before Cher's memoir begins, the iconic singer leaves a message to her readers. Under a section titled "Author's Note," Cher wrote that the book, "Cher: The Memoir, Part One, " is based on her "sometimes imperfect" memory,

Cher alleged in her new memoir that she caught ex-husband Sonny Bono cheating on her with his secretary around 1967, when she was suffering from her third miscarriage.

Cher alleged that her ex-husband, Sonny Bono, cheated on her with his secretary around the time that she suffered a miscarriage in her new memoir.