Turning back time is more exhausting than it sounds.
“Sometimes at the day’s end, I would really be tired,” she reveals toEntertainment Weekly.
“We did this for months going back and forward.
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But sometimes I would just say, ‘You guys, I just can’t do this anymore.
I will be so glad when this is over.’
Because sometimes when we were in the bad part, the bad part weighed so heavily.
‘Cher’ book cover.HarperCollins
Now it’s over, and it’s not a part of me.”
But was it cathartic to release these stories into the world?
“I don’t know if it was healing,” she muses.
“While I was talking about it, it was just exasperating and tiring.
I just kept thinking, ‘I don’t want to keep doing this.’
But it’s not an easy thing.”
“It’s hard telling everything about your life,” she says.
“Some things really don’t belong.
I wasn’t as forthcoming in the first version.
So, I went back and made the decision to say much more than I actually wanted to.
There are only a few things that are just so private, I can’t.”
“I was afraid to do it in the beginning.
But once I made the decision to do it, I just made the decision.”
There wasn’t a lot of research required in uncovering her family history at least.
“I heard about my mom’s terrible childhood almost every day of my life,” she quips.
And one day I went, ‘Mom, you know what?
It’s not fair that you don’t give me my own pain.
Just stop it.'"
“I hope that I made it a little easier for the girls coming out,” she reflects.
She never had a grand plan to write a memoir some day.
“It just was the time,” she notes.
“My mom always said, ‘What belongs to you comes to you.'”
However, it was her decision to split it into two parts.
“That was the beginning of something completely new,” she says of where part 2 will begin.
“It was the beginning of a new life for me.”
That doesn’t mean that part 2 won’t also have its share of highs and lows.
“you might’t be an artist and not go through hard times,” Cher concludes.
“People don’t always love you.
Then you wait, and then you do something that becomes popular.
Sometimes it was fabulous and sometimes it was heartbreaking.”
Cher: The Memoir, Part Onein all its fabulous and heartbreaking honesty is available now.
