Cher shares some vivid memories of growing up in Hollywood.
In a quote Adapted from his new memoir, “Cher: A Memoir, Part I,” The legendary singer, 78, writes that she met Hollywood icon Warren Beatty, 87, when she says she was 15 and would swim in the actor’s pool until 4 a.m. wearing a Natalie Wood swimsuit. stay
What’s more, the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee says she and Betty shared a kiss that fateful night before going on two more dates.
Interestingly, Cher said in previous interviews – including one with Ale in 2018 – that she was 16 when she met Betty.
However, her new memoir gels with past comments she made about how she ran into Betty — or rather, how he ran into her. According to the star, he and his daughter had a cute encounter after he cut her off while driving down LA’s famous Sunset Boulevard.
“Pulling into the parking lot of the iconic Schwab Pharmacy, I jumped up and yelled, ‘What’s wrong with you? You almost killed me!'” Cher wrote in the published quote. The Daily Mail.
“The man was wearing large, dark-framed sunglasses, but I could still tell he was incredibly handsome, with one of the sexiest smiles I’d ever seen. Taking off the glasses, I realized it was Warren Beatty.
Beatty, then 24, had just starred in the 1961 film “Splendor in the Grass” with Natalie Wood, whom Cher says Beatty dated after working with him on the film. .
“Ten years older than me, Warren was so drop-dead gorgeous I had to steady myself when he asked my name,” Cher recalled.
When Betty reportedly asked her if she “wanted to get something to eat”, the Oscar winner was “hesitant” at first.
“It was close to my curfew, and I was already worried I was going to be late, but then I thought about how much of a fan my mom is, so I shrugged and said, ‘Sure,'” she remembers thinking. .
But Cher really swung when Betty invited him over to her place. “My knees almost buckled at his charming face and that smile – a devastating combination,” he continued. But he pushed aside any tenderness he felt, and told her, “Okay.”
After taking Betty in her car to his “beautiful house in Beverly Hills with an amazing pool,” she says things got a little romantic.
“He showed me in, fixed us some cheese and crackers, then leaned in and kissed me.”
“Now, that’s interesting,” she added, I thought as I kissed her back.
Cheese, crackers and a kiss then allegedly turned into an all-night pool party.
“We both went swimming, with me in Natalie Wood’s bathing suit, and we had a great time,” Cher continued. “After that I went home giddy with joy at 4am and found mum [step-father] Gilbert [LaPiere] Standing on the doorstep in my night clothes, furious that I’d defied my curfew yet again.
The next morning when Betty calls him and asks him out to dinner, Cher hangs up, also aware of his mother’s calls.
After the “Shampoo” star suggested going swimming, Cher says she laughed “at his random suggestion.”
“I didn’t want him to know how small I was or how grounded I was, so I told him, ‘My mom is with me because I’m home late, so I’m not going anywhere. I am,’ he added.
“Let me talk to my mother,” he laughed. I wish I had a picture of the look on her face when she realized who she was talking to. She literally melted before my eyes and was on her own when I arranged to meet her.
According to Cher, her mother whispered to her as she left for her next date, “You have to tell me everything!”
Cher “Had fun [Beatty’s company]And went on two more dates with her. But shortly after, she met her future husband and partner Sonny Bono, with whom Betty had last called him.
“Do you want to go to dinner?” Cher asked, remembering him.
“‘Well, I have a boyfriend,’ I said.” To which Betty replied, “Okay, do you want to go to lunch?”
“It was very sweet and so was he,” said Cher.
As to why her mother let her date a man nine years her senior when she was only 15, Cher writes, “Another mother would have kept me from dating a man who was the type of person almost every woman in Hollywood wanted. (and New York, and Paris, and London, and Kuala Lumpur), but my childhood was never normal.
The post has reached out to Beatty’s reps.
“Cher: A Memoir, Part I,” The first of two installments of his intimate autobiography, hits bookshelves and e-readers on November 19.
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