Cher names the only celebrity who broke up with her… and reveals she was ‘madly in love’ with him

Cher has peeled back another exciting layer of her iconic life, revealing the one celebrity she dated who broke up with her.

The 78-year-old diva promoted her new book Cher: The Memoir on the Howard Stern Show on Thursday.

The longtime shock jock asked if guys ‘expect fabulous sex because you’re Cher,’ to which she quickly replied: ‘Yes, and they get it.

When asked how she could tell, she said: “You could feel the reaction,” prompting Stern to ask: ‘Who would ever leave you?’

Cher has peeled back another exciting layer of her iconic life, revealing the one celebrity she dated who broke up with her.

‘Few men, few men,’ she said, before elaborating: ‘Look, I was madly in love with Val Kilmer and he left.’

The singer/actress and the actor dated for two years between 1982 and 1984, with their 13-year age difference raising many eyebrows in Hollywood at the time.

Asked why he left, Cher said: ‘Because sometimes you’re only meant to be with someone for so long’, adding. “he was really young.”

Cher revealed back in 2018 that “When we kissed, I thought my head was going to pop right out of my body.”

Then in 2021, she opened up in more detail about the relationship and revealed where they met.

‘I met him at a birthday party my friend threw for me. She said, “I invited this guy and I think either you or my friend who’s an editor will like him,” Cher explained.

‘We became friends because we constantly laughed at the same things. He would sleep over and it was just a friendship (at first.) It took a long time. Well, I guess it’s not very long,” she said.

She also admitted that their 13-year age difference ‘was a bigger deal back then’ when Kilmer made his big screen debut in Top Secret in 1984, the year they split.

He followed that up with 1985’s Real Genius and 1986’s Top Gun, and his career was fully launched.

The singer/actress and the actor dated for two years between 1982 and 1984, with their 13-year age difference raising many eyebrows in Hollywood at the time.

‘I met him at a birthday party my friend threw for me. She said, “I invited this guy and I think either you or my friend who’s an editor will like him,” Cher explained.

Asked why he left, Cher said: “Because sometimes you’re just meant to be with someone for so long,” adding, “he was really young”

Cher added that she watched his 2021 documentary Val and wrote to him after watching it.

‘I said: “Valus Maximus, I’m sorry if I did anything to make you mad or hurt your feelings. I love you and your documentary was all… I love the things that made me mad, the things that made me hysterical, amazed, hurt, amazed, etc. You are brave and beyond brilliant,’ she said, referring to their nicknames for each other.

She added of the documentary: ‘He is a true artist and renaissance man. He was sick and that didn’t stop him. He created an extension of his art and his life.’

‘See what he created and even the things he let you see that no one would let you see. Even the worst things he wanted to be in the documentary because he wanted to show you who he was,’ she said.