Cher and Warren Beatty met under strange circumstances and became romantically involved when she was just a teenager.
On November 19, the “Believe” singer shared in her memoir Cher: Memoir Part 1that she first met Beatty after she borrowed her adoptive father Gilbert’s car and nearly crashed into a Lincoln owned by the actor. In the book, Cher says she took her car to confront the “unbelievably handsome” man.
She said via Yahoo!: “10 years older than me, Warren was so beautiful that I had to stand still when he asked my name.”
After buying her cigarettes, Beatty invited young Cher to his place for a meal. Although Cher was hesitant at first because of the curfew, she eventually agreed.
They went to Beatty’s home in Beverly Hills’ Trousdale Estates, where she was given a tour and enjoyed cheese and crackers. “Then he leaned in and kissed me,” she wrote in her book, revealing that she “kissed him back.”
Cher revealed that she borrowed Natalie Wood’s bathing suit to go swimming with Beatty and stayed out until the early morning, 4am to be exact. Wood and Beatty had just starred in the 1961 film Splendor on the grass together.
When she arrived home, her parents were angry that Cher had violated her curfew again.
“You won’t go out again until you’re twenty-one!” her mother Georgia Holt told her.
Beatty continued to pursue Cher and called the next day to invite the singer to dinner and swimming again. However, she rejected him because she was having trouble with her parents.
That all changed when he asked to speak to Cher’s mother, who “melted” when she found out who was on the other end of the line.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were with Warren Beatty?” Holt asked Cher.
Cher later became good friends with Beatty.
In her book, Cher explores “their extraordinary beginnings from childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono – and reveals the incredibly complicated relationship that made them world-famous but ultimately Together they keep them apart.”
In particular, several statements she made about Bono and their relationship made headlines, including her telling him that she wanted to sleep with their guitarist while the couple was still married.
She also claimed that Bono considered killing her after the revelation.
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