In her new memoir launched final week, Cher, remembers her reasoning for dropping her virginity at 14 — and shared that she was motivated by anger.
The “Believe” singer wrote that she had a crush on a boy in her neighborhood who was a highschool senior, in line with excerpts of the guide by way of Folks. Their age distinction didn’t appear to be a problem once they have been alone, kissing in her room, however as quickly because the boy was round his associates who have been older than Cher, he’d deal with her “like an embarrassing kid,” she stated.
The difficulty hit a boiling level when the boy and Cher met his buddies at a restaurant. Apparently, upon their arrival, the boy’s associates mockingly requested him if he was going to deliver “that kid” alongside. Consequently, the boy “ditched” Cher and went to eat along with his friends with out her, she stated.
“I was so hurt when he did that, I had revenge sex with him. I had never wanted to. Otherwise I would have done it one of the five hundred other times he asked,” Cher writes. “But I was so angry at being dismissed, I decided to, if not lose, loan out my virginity to him.”
“When what turned out to be a massively overrated experience came to an end, I asked him, ‘Is that it? Are we finished?’” she continues, per Entertainment Weekly. “Then I told him to go home and never come back. I wanted him to feel just as dismissed as he’d made me feel. Even though he kept trying to make it up to me, I never spoke to him again.”
Cher is at present relationship 38-year-old music govt Alexander “AE” Edwards, and lately defined why she is veering towards youthful suitors.
“I’m really shy when I’m not working, and kind of shy around men, and the reason I got with young men is because men my age are older,” Cher stated on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” in Might. “Well, now they’re all dead, but before, they were always terrified to approach me, and younger men were the only ones.”
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When Hudson steered the youthful males who strategy Cher are “bold,” the music icon agreed and added that they have been “raised by women like me.”