Cher shared an intense and awkward second in an interview with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after taking offense to a query she deemed “dumb.”
The icy alternate started when Kimmel requested her if she’d completed the second a part of her e book, to which she replied within the detrimental.
Jimmy Kimmel then continued to poke enjoyable at Cher as he expressed doubts she’d end up earlier than the November launch date after she admitted she hadn’t “even began.”
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Cher And Jimmy Kimmel Get Into Tense Alternate Over Her Memoir
Cher made an look on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night present on Tuesday night, the place she was grilled with some rapid-fire questions on her life.
Nevertheless, in accordance with the Day by day Mail, the “Coronary heart of Stone” seemed to be delay by a few of Kimmel’s questions, resulting in an ungainly second on set.
In a dialog, whereas selling her e book “Cher: The Memoir,” whose first half was launched in November 2024, Kimmel requested the singer if she’d began the second half forward of the November 2025 launch date.
“The second a part of your e book, have you ever completed that but?” Kimmel requested, which appeared to set off the singer.
At first, Cher responded with fun earlier than admitting that she hadn’t “even began it.”
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Kimmel appeared shocked and requested if it was “true” that she hadn’t began, inflicting Cher to stare at him coldly.
The usually affable Kimmel then expressed doubts that she’d full it earlier than November if she hadn’t “even began it.”
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The Singer Known as Jimmy Kimmel’s Questions ‘Dumb’
As Cher maintained a chilly silence through the interview, Kimmel stated about her memoir, “So it is not popping out in November.’
“Sure, it’s,” Cher replied, insisting it is going to be launched in November, to which Kimmel teased, “We’ll see.”
The dialog changed into a backwards and forwards between the pair earlier than Kimmel jokingly provided help on the memoir, to which Cher politely declined.
Because the present went on, Kimmel started to ask one other query, however the music legend was seemingly fed up and shut him down earlier than he may end his assertion.
Towards the tip of the interview, Kimmel requested the music legend one other query, saying, “For those who may flip again time [a reference to Cher’s hit single ‘If I Could Turn Back Time],'” however earlier than he may end, the singer interjected.
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“That is so dumb,” Cher stated as she tried to provide a solution.
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Cher Reveals Purpose For Longtime Romance With Sonny Bono
Elsewhere in her dialog with Kimmel, Cher, born Cheryl Sarkisian, went additional to weigh in on her relationship with Sonny Bono as she revealed the rationale why they stayed lengthy collectively.
She shared a tumultuous marriage with Bono from 1964 to 1975 and starred in “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour” with him.
Based on the Day by day Mail, the singer advised Kimmel that their time on the present saved their marriage going for an extended interval.
“I’ve to let you know one thing. Doing the present saved us collectively as a result of, on the present, we had a lot enjoyable. We had been equal, you already know?” Cher started.
“That was — I imply, I cherished — I cherished it. We cherished it. We labored so effectively collectively. We had a lot enjoyable, and it actually saved us nearer longer than I actually wished,” Cher added.
The Singer Credit A Thriller Man For Serving to Her Depart Sonny Bono
Through the interview, Cher credited a thriller man with serving to her depart Bono. Though she talked about him in her e book, she did not identify him on tv as she mused about how he should have felt about it.
“I’ve people who I’ve talked about in there, and I am questioning, you already know, what do they assume. Like, one man particularly, who was… he was very instrumental in serving to me to go away Sonny,” Cher stated.
“I ponder, I discussed his entire identify, so, I ponder, how does he really feel about it? However he should really feel good as a result of he was a very good particular person,” she added.
The actress then talked about that she thought this specific particular person was in Texas proper now, although she opted in opposition to Kimmel discovering him and getting him on the telephone.
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Cher Revealed Identification Of ‘Bizarre’ Music Producer Who Pushed Her For Intercourse At 15
The Kimmel interview comes after Cher revealed the id of the music producer who pressed her for intercourse at age 15 and later pulled a gun on her.
In her e book, she detailed the “bizarre” encounter she had within the early Nineteen Sixties with the late Phil Spector, whom she met by means of her boyfriend on the time, Antonino LoTempio.
“He may need been a demigod to many, however he acted bizarre, and I did not like how he stared at me,” she wrote of the music producer in her memoir earlier than recounting the surprising second he requested her to sleep with him.
“‘Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?’ he stated, smirking, asking me to sleep with him,” Cher penned. She then wrote her response, telling him that she would have intercourse with him in alternate for cash.
“With out breaking a sweat, I gave him a glance again and replied, ‘Oui, pour l’argent,'” she shared.
Cher added in her e book, “You possibly can have knocked him over with a feather. He did not assume I would perceive the query, not to mention have a solution.”