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Cher is opening up about the darker moments from her marriage to Sonny Bono ... revealing in her new memoir the music legend "seriously thought" about killing her toward the end of their union.

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00:00This is gonna put a whole new spin on I got you, babe. If you one of those people

00:06When you see Sonny and Cher's names you immediately start humming

00:12Yes, cuz you were just doing it I literally

00:15Cher is revealing a lot about their relationship and their marriage in her new memoir

00:21Which is simply called Cher part one the memoir Cher the memoir part one

00:27But she's talking about a period early in their relationship in their marriage rather and where they were having some

00:35Marital strife because she had told him she was unhappy and went so far as to say that she wanted to

00:41sleep with their guitarist a guy named Bill and

00:45While they were performing their show in Las Vegas. It all came to a head one morning. She says when she

00:52Came down to have some breakfast. She says one morning. I came down to breakfast

00:56And he Sonny surprised me by saying, you know

01:00After you went off with Bill that night at the Sahara. I seriously thought about throwing you off our balcony

01:07Cher replied. Oh you did did you?

01:10Well, there would have been no need to push me because I was gonna jump

01:14Wow, so what's really interesting of 72?

01:18yeah, what's interesting is they stayed married for years after that and this was famously a

01:25Rocky and ultimately toxic relationship, you know where Sonny controlled Cher

01:31And that's well documented but going to those lengths that early on is really stunning

01:38It's really really stunning

01:39I think what kind of says a lot about the relationship too is she says they after they had this conversation

01:44They both laughed about it like the ridiculousness of I wanted to kill you

01:47Well, I wanted to kill myself first and then he laughs because what else could you do?

01:50That's sort of their relationship like you laugh about it you put on that public face

01:53But it was so dark and so horrible and not meant to be, you know

01:57It's really you know, what's really interesting about this is that when Sonny died?

02:01tragically

02:02Cher spoke at his funeral and

02:05Gave a really

02:08emotional

02:10emotional tribute to Sonny, um, I

02:14Guess when I think about it

02:16It really isn't that surprising because there was a lot of good and a lot of bad in that relationship

02:21And you don't necessarily want to bring that bad front and center at an event like that

02:27But she was effusive about Sonny then and I'm not saying it was disingenuous because it was no wasn't it was just part of

02:34their relationship

02:36Complicated. Well, I think what I think that's a lot of relationships

02:38You know the the badness the things that were so toxic in the early 70s for them

02:42By the time he died were 25 years in the rearview and you know, they both raised their child together

02:46so you only remember the good things at that point and you tend to cling on to that and like the stuff that

02:51You know made you want to jump off a balcony you forget about that and then you write it in a memoir though, right?

02:58And then you write a memoir

03:00part one part one

03:02Well, look her life is one of the most interesting lives of people in show business. What was it Eric?

03:08She's had three careers in music

03:11So many careers so many comebacks in one an Oscar like it's one of the most interesting careers in entertainment history

03:15Really is you really want part to like what is she gonna say about like Greg Allman and the pizza delivery boy?

03:20Right all the people that everything that's happened since then. I don't know that the pizza delivery. Oh the pizza delivery guy

03:26Absolutely. He's gonna make it on what stories she has to tell about

03:30You hope you're around for part two. Hey, this is Vicki from Mississippi

03:35You know back then so much was kept off of social media about what happens in relationships

03:42And so I feel like now with them being more open they can talk more about how intense their love was together

03:49And sometimes being so intense

03:52It's not always healthy. So it's kind of toxic

03:55and so I think maybe he just loved her that much that he became toxic and didn't want to leave her and so

04:02you know there they were in this relationship with the kid and

04:06Trying to make it work and he just loved her intensely enough that it maybe just wasn't that healthy

04:11Well, you know, she also says in the book that he screwed her over because when they got divorced

04:16She assumed each person got half and that there were documents that she had signed where Sonny got

04:2390% and she basically got no money. So it was a

04:27It was toxic

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