Cher wasn’t sure she had a ‘future’ with Gregg Allman when she married him while pregnant

Cher reflects on her second marriage.

In her bestselling memoir, Cher: The Memoir, First partreflected on the multi-hyphenation of her relationship with the late Gregg Allman and how quickly she decided to marry the rocker.

Her divorce from ex-husband Sonny Bono was finalized in June 1975 and Cher, 78, had already been dating Allman at the time. “It had taken so long and been so complicated that I felt a sense of relief when it was over,” she writes.

However, Cher had some reservations about her relationship with the Allman Brothers Band singer.

“I didn’t know if my relationship with Gregory would last or not. I lived each day as it came,” she writes. “Then I found out I was pregnant and we decided to get married.” Cher said everything was arranged for them to tie the knot soon after.

Her sister Gee and friend Paulette looked at Cher “like I’d walked into an alternate universe” when she made the announcement. “Come on, let’s just do this,” she told them as they prepared to head to Las Vegas.

“I just kept putting one foot in front of the other,” she writes. “The future is never written in stone. I did what I thought was the right thing to do.”

The “Believe” singer wanted to get married if she had a baby.

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The wedding ceremony was short and the small bridal party flew back to California afterwards. “There was nothing romantic about our wedding day,” the Oscar winner notes of the 1975 nuptials, which took place days after her divorce from Bono.

Cher filed for divorce nine days after their wedding, but then reconciled. The couple welcomed their son, Elijah Blue, in 1976 and would remain married until 1979.

Allman died in 2017 aged 69 after complications from liver cancer.

Elsewhere in Cher’s memoir, the singer recalls her relationship with Gene Simmons, taking a drunk John Lennon to the Playboy Mansion and her first impression of Dolly Parton, among other anecdotes.

Cher: The Memoir, Part 1 can be purchased wherever books are sold. The second part of Cher’s memoirs is expected to be published in 2025.