Cher had to act like John Lennon's "mother" when he stripped naked at the Playboy Mansion. The 'Believe' hitmaker was good friends with Hugh Hefner so agreed to the late Beatles legend and his pal Harry Nilsson's request to take them to the media mogul's infamous house for one of his casual Sunday evening get togethers - but was embarrassed by their drunken antics. In an extract from 'Cher: The Memoir, Part One' serialised by the Daily Mail newspaper, she wrote: "Walking into an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles one Sunday evening I bumped into John Lennon and his friend Harry Nilsson and they asked if I could take them to Hugh Hefner's house for movie night.
'John's dying to see the Playboy Mansion,' Harry pleaded. "Hef held parties all the time, many of which became notorious as drunken orgies with some of the Playmates, but his Sunday movie nights were calm and casual affairs for friends to enjoy cocktails and dinner before watching a new release. "I didn't have anything else going on that night in 1974 so I agreed to drive them to Hef's and realised too late that they were drunker than I'd thought.
"There were about 50 people there and just as the movie was about to start, the two of them put on aristocratic English accents and started chanting, 'Hef! Hef! Hef!' except with the accents it sounded like 'Huff! Huff! Huff!'. "Mortified, I could tell Hef was starting to get annoyed. " 'Stop that!' I told them.
'Come with me.' It was like I became the mother and they were two .