In her new memoir Cher: The Memoir, Half One, which was launched on Tuesday, November, 19, the music icon recalled shedding her virginity on the age of 14.

Nevertheless it wasn’t the loved-up story you’d anticipate, and even one in all younger hormones taking up. As a substitute, the now 78-year-old singer mentioned she did it to get revenge on a boy she was relationship.

Cher mentioned that she had crush on a boy in her neighborhood and that they started relationship when she was 14, writing that they’d kiss in her bed room. Quickly, nevertheless, the “Consider” singer seen that the boy’s habits started to vary when he was round his buddies.

“[He] was candy sufficient once we have been alone, however as quickly as his buddies got here round, he’d deal with me like an embarrassing child,” Cher particulars.

Someday, when the boys have been planning to exit to a restaurant, Cher says they laughed and mockingly requested her boyfriend if he was going to deliver “that child” — at which level he “ditched” her.

“I used to be so harm when he did that, I had revenge intercourse with him. I had by no means wished to. In any other case I might have achieved it one of many 5 hundred different instances he requested,” Cher writes. “However I used to be so offended at being dismissed, I made a decision to, if not lose, mortgage out my virginity to him.”

“When what turned out to be a massively overrated expertise got here to an finish, I requested him, ‘Is that it? Are we completed?’ Then I instructed him to go dwelling and by no means come again,” she continues, including, “I wished him to really feel simply as dismissed as he’d made me really feel.”

Whereas Cher mentioned the boy tried to make it as much as her afterward, she by no means spoke to him once more.

The Burlesque star additionally wrote that she heard her mom’s voice in her head after the primary time she had intercourse.

“My mom warned me that the minute I misplaced my virginity she’d know as a result of she’d see it in my eyes, so after the romp with the Italian, I ran to the mirror to verify,” she writes. “I half anticipated to see the phrase SEX flashing in fluorescent letters throughout my brow, however I could not spot something totally different, and he or she did not both.”

Whereas she stored the expertise a secret from her mom, Cher did inform her girlfriends, whom she says used to talked nonstop about “playing around with boys” however by no means going to “fourth base.”

“I reported to my buddies that the ‘factor’ they have been consistently speaking about was no large deal and that they need to keep on kissing,” she recollects.

That is not the one intimate confession Cher makes within the memoir. Elsewhere within the ebook, she recounts kissing actor Warren Beatty when she was simply 15 whereas driving in Hollywood.

She says that she had borrowed her adoptive father’s automotive at some point and was minimize off by a convertible on Sundown Boulevard. The driving force turned out to be Beatty — who was 25 on the time and had simply starred in 1961’s Splendor within the Grass.

“Ten years older than me, Warren was so drop-dead beautiful I needed to regular myself as he requested my identify,” Cher writes. The singer-actress mentioned Beaty ended up inviting her to his dwelling for one thing to eat.

After giving her a tour of his dwelling and serving her cheese and crackers, Cher says he “then leaned in and kissed” her, and he or she “kissed him again.”

Cher additionally detailed the primary time she discovered about her actual identify. The stunning revelation got here when she determined to legally change her identify to easily Cher.

Whereas the Grammy winner wrote that she “believed Cherilyn was [her] identify,” it was really listed as “Cheryl” on her delivery certificates.

The songwriter famous, “My mom had no concept [what to name me], however the [nurse] insisted so she replied, ‘Nicely, Lana Turner’s my favourite actress and her little lady’s referred to as Cheryl. My mom’s identify is Lynda, so how about Cherilyn?’”

Her mother, Georgia Holt, reacted by saying, “Give me a break.” Nevertheless, Cher was “formally registered as Cheryl.”

The performer formally modified her identify to only “Cher” in 1979 after dropping the surnames of her of father John Paul Sarkisian, stepdad Gilbert LaPiere and ex-husbands Gregg Allman and Sonny Bono.

“It is higher for me than having folks marvel if they need to name me Mrs. Allman or Mrs. Bono or Mrs. Bono Allman or Miss Cher or no matter,” she defined on The Tonight Present With Johnny Carson on the time.

“I prefer it,” the pop star continued. “I imply, Cher is simply high-quality. Simply plain Cher.”