Cher is sharing some candid recollections about rising up in Hollywood.
In an excerpt tailored from her new memoir, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” the legendary singer, 78, writes that she met Hollywood icon Warren Beatty, 87, when she was 15 and spent an evening swimming within the actor’s pool till 4 AM, all whereas sporting Natalie Wooden’s swimsuit.
What’s extra, the current Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame inductee says she and Beatty shared a kiss on that fateful night time earlier than occurring two extra dates.
Based on her memoir, Cher met Beatty in LA one night time after he lower her off whereas driving on Sundown Boulevard.
“Pulling into the parking lot of the famous Schwab’s Pharmacy, I jumped out and yelled, ‘What the f–k’s the matter with you? You almost hit me!’” Cher writes within the excerpt printed by DailyMail.
“The man was wearing big, black-framed sunglasses, but I could still tell that he was unbelievably handsome, with one of the sexiest smiles I’d ever seen. When he took off his glasses, I realized that it was Warren Beatty.”
Beatty, then 24, had simply starred within the film “Splendor In The Grass” alongside Natalie Wooden, who was married on the time however was having an affair with the actor.
“Ten years older than me, Warren was so drop-dead gorgeous I had to steady myself as he asked my name,” Cher recalled.
When Beatty allegedly requested her if she wished to “get something to eat,” the Oscar-winner “hesitated” at first.
“It was close to my curfew, and I was already worried I’d be late but then I thought of how much of a fan my mother was, so I shrugged and said, ‘Sure,’” she remembered pondering.
However Cher actually swooned when Beatty supposedly invited her to his place. “My knees almost buckled in the face of his charm and that smile — a devastating combination,” she continued. However she pushed apart any reticence she felt, and instructed him, “Okay.”
After following Beatty in her personal automotive as much as his “beautiful house with an amazing pool in Beverly Hills,” she says issues obtained slightly romantic.
“He showed me inside, fixed us some cheese and crackers, then leaned in and kissed me.”
She added, “Now, this is interesting, I thought as I kissed him back.”
Cheese, crackers and a kiss then allegedly become an all night time pool social gathering.
“The two of us went swimming, with me in Natalie Wood’s bathing suit, and we had a great time,” Cher went on. “Afterward I drove home in a happy daze at 4am and found Mom and [step-father] Gilbert [LaPiere] standing on the doorstep in their nightclothes, furious that I’d defied my curfew again.”
When Beatty known as her the next morning and requested her out to dinner, Cher shut him down, all too-aware of her mom eaves-dropping on the decision.
After the “Shampoo” star urged they go swimming, Cher says she laughed “at his random suggestion.”
“I didn’t want him to know how young I was or that I was grounded, so I told him, ‘My mother’s p—-d with me for getting home late, so I’m not going any place,” she added.
“Let me talk to your mom,’ he laughed. I wish I had a photograph of the look on her face when she realized who she was speaking to. She literally melted in front of my eyes and when I arranged to meet him she was beside herself.”
Based on Cher, her mother whispered to her as she left for her subsequent date, “You have to tell me everything!”
Cher “enjoyed [Beatty’s company]” and went on two extra dates with him. However shortly after, she met her future husband and collaborator Sonny Bono, who she was with the final time Beatty known as her.
“Do you want to go to dinner?” Cher recollects him asking.
“‘Well, I have a boyfriend,’ I said.” To which Beatty responded, “Okay, do you want to go to lunch?”
“It was so cute and so him,” Cher stated.
Of why her mom let her date a person 9 years her senior when she was solely 15, Cher writes, “Any other mother might have stopped me from meeting up with a man notorious for sleeping with almost every woman he encountered in Hollywood (and New York, and Paris, and London, and Kuala Lumpur). But my childhood was never normal.”
The Put up has reached out to Beatty’s reps.
“Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” the primary of two installments in her intimate autobiography, hits bookshelves and e-readers Nov. 19.
