Cher reveals she was ‘in love’ with Val Kilmer – but ‘he left’ despite ‘Fabulous Sex’

Cher gets candid about her love and sex life.

During a performance at The Howard Stern Show on Wednesday, Nov. 20, the “Believe” singer, 78, opened up about how “madly in love” she was with Val Kilmer and how he left even though they had “amazing sex.”

After host Howard Stern asked Cher if “guys expect fabulous sex” because she’s “Cher,” the actress/musician replied, “Yeah, and they get it.”

She added that she can always tell it’s good “on the reaction.”

Stern, 70, then asked “who would ever leave” her, to which Cher replied, “Few men. Few men. A few.”

“Look, I was madly in love with Val Kilmer, and he left,” Cher recalled.

“Why would he leave? He’s having great sex with one of the most beautiful women in the world. What the f— is the problem with that?” asked the media personality.

“Because you don’t, sometimes you just stay, sometimes you’re only meant to be with someone for so long and Val was like, he was really young,” the “Strong Enough” hitmaker replied.

Cher and Kilmer, 64, originally met in the early 1980s at a birthday party and fell in love.

In August 2021, Mermaids star opened up to PEOPLE about their friendship-turned-romance and bond they had in the years that followed.

“We became friends because we laughed at the same things constantly,” she said. “He would sleep over and it was just a friendship (at first.)

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Cher revealed that their 14-year age difference “was a bigger deal back then.”

“The truth was, if I hadn’t gone out with younger men, I would never have had a date,” she said. “Younger men were not intimidated by older women.”

Cher noted that the former couple’s shared “sense of humor” and “what they would put up with each other” was more than she experienced with anyone else.

“He would just go out and do his own thing and you just had to be prepared,” she recalled. “And he was so beautiful. It went from madly in love and laughing hysterically to respecting each other’s abilities.