Cher Explains Why She Divorced Ex Gregg Allman After Only 9 Days
Cher is opening up about a former love.
The 78-year-old entertainer explained her decision to file for divorce from her second husband, Gregg Allman, after only nine days of marriage in her upcoming memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part One.
When the couple conceived son Elijah Blue Allman in 1975, they decided to tie the knot “within a few days,” via Page Six.
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They got married in Las Vegas that June, four days after Cher finalized her divorce from her first husband, Sonny Bono.
“There was little about our wedding day that was romantic. There would be no honeymoon,” she noted in the book.
Cher filed for divorce from the Allman Brothers Band member the following week after allegedly finding a “plastic bag full of white powder” in his toiletry bag and hearing from friends that he was planning to leave her. They reconciled after Gregg went to rehab, but their “belated honeymoon” in Jamaica ended early when Cher allegedly saw Gregg drinking.
When she learned Gregg was addicted to heroin, she gave him an ultimatum.
“[I] told him over the phone, ‘I’m just so tired of doing this, Gregory. I’m so tired of going to rehab with you,’” she remembers. “He was quiet on the other end of the line. ‘But I keep going,’ he said softly,” she wrote.
“His answer stopped me in my tracks, because it was true. He kept going to rehab, kept trying to get clean, kept making an effort despite failing in the past. In that moment, instead of thinking of my own exhaustion, I empathized with him.”
The couple were still together when their baby boy was born in 1976.
“[My breaking] point came soon after when Gregory had a paranoid breakdown one night and insisted he saw men with guns in the backyard,” she wrote, calling that moment “the last straw.”
“It [was] not safe for kids. It only happened once, but I couldn’t risk it,” she said.
Cher separated from Gregg again, and their divorce was finalized in January 1979.
Gregg died in 2017 of liver cancer at age 69, and Cher attended his funeral.