‘Cher: The Memoir – Part One’: Biggest Revelations

Cher sought advice from Lucille Ball, who just ended her marriage to Desi Arnaz at the time, which helped her move on from her abusive marriage to Sonny.

She penned in her memoir: “I told her, ‘Lucy, I want to leave Sonny, and you’re the only one I know that’s ever been in this same situation.

“‘What should I do?’ Lucy and her husband had also become famous, working together as stars on TV. And he was a huge womanizer too. Then Lucy had left him. She told me, ‘F— him, you’re the one with the talent.'”

She later relayed the same advice to Tina Turner amid her traumatic union with Ike Turner.

Cher said: “Before we went on she came to my room asking if I had some cover-up. She had a bruise on her arm she didn’t want [it] showing on camera. She sat down while I looked for it and then quietly said, very straightforward, ‘Tell me how you left him.”

Tina and Ike parted ways in 1976.