Trigger warning: This article contains descriptions of domestic violence Music icon Cher has detailed the first half of her life in her first memoir. While the headlines are rushing in, from being briefly raised by nuns to her difficult relationship with her mother, one major takeaway is the piece of advice she gave the late Tina Turner . Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today In part one of Cher: The Memoir , out yesterday, the music icon wrote about Tina Turner’s two appearances on Cher’s self-titled TV show.
During one visit, Tina asked Cher for help to cover up a bruise from her then-husband Ike Turner. “One of the days we were shooting, she came to my room before we went on asking if I had some cover-up. She had a bruise on her arm she didn’t want showing on camera.
I told her I had something that would work,” Cher wrote. Tina asked Cher, “Tell me how you left him.” “I looked at her and told her, ‘I just walked out and kept going,’” she wrote.
Cher: The Memoir details the singer, actress, TV host and fashion icon’s life story. From her wayfarer childhood, which included times of extreme poverty, to her breakout in Sonny & Cher and eventual divorce from Sonny Bono, to her acting career from 1980, Part One of the memoir is already making headlines for its candid accounts. Notably, the memoir paints a complex and troubling picture of her decade-long marriage to Sonny Bono from 1964 to 1975.
She describes Sonny as controlling and short-tempe.