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Cher Almost Jumped Off a Balcony Due to "Loveless Marriage" to Sonny Bono

Cher was so unhappy in her "loveless marriage" to Sonny Bono that she thought about jumping off a balcony multiple times to end their relationship.

While the couple captured hearts with their musical duets and love songs as Sonny & Cher, behind the curtain was another story—the "Believe" singer was so unhappy and "trapped" in her "loveless marriage" that she often thought of removing herself from his life in drastic ways. Though she thought about jumping off of a balcony multiple times, Cher never had the courage to do it and often considered how her actions would affect her loved ones, namely, her then-young child Chaz Bono, her mother Georgia, and her sister Georganne. Thinking of family stopped her, she said, adding that "things like this could make people who look up to me feel that it’s a viable solution."

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