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Cher Considered Jumping Off a Las Vegas Balcony While ‘Trapped’ in ‘Loveless Marriage’ to Sonny Bono: ‘I Did This Five or Six Times’


Cher writes in her new memoir that she considered jumping off a Las Vegas balcony when she felt trapped in her marriage to Sonny Bono.

What stopped Cher from jumping was thoughts of her loved ones, including her child Chaz and her sister Georganne and mother Georgia. “Things like this could make people who look up to me feel that it’s a viable solution,” Cher writes about stopping herself from jumping off the balcony. Cher told People last year that Bono “pissed me off royally and hurt me” but ultimately apologized for his behavior.

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