Cher completely will get that it’s a enjoyable parlor sport to make jokes about her courting a lot youthful males. However the joke is on you, as a result of the 77-year-old ageless pop surprise has the perfect purpose for romancing males half her age.
“I’m actually shy after I’m not working and sort of shy round males,” she instructed Jennifer Hudson on Wednesday (Might 1) on the singer’s daytime discuss present. However right here’s the true kicker: “And the rationale I’m going out with younger males is as a result of males my age or older — effectively, now they’re all lifeless — however earlier than they simply by no means, they have been all the time terrified to method me and youthful males have been the one ones that…”
“They’re daring,” Hudson helped her out, with mom of two Cher laughing, “Yeah! Raised by girls like me!” The subject got here up as a result of the “Imagine” singer has not too long ago been linked with 38-year-old music exec Alexander “A.E.” Edwards. Cher went Insta official with Edwards in Nov. 2022 with a pic of them holding palms. When requested if he was her “new man,” she posted a smiling emoji, shutting down haters feedback on their 40-year age hole by saying “love doesn’t know math” then doubling-down on that emotion in January after posting one other snuggly shot captioned “Love is Love.”
She additionally confirmed that she’d as soon as turned down a date with Elvis Presley, additionally for good purpose. “It was as a result of I used to be nervous and I knew of the individuals round him and it wasn’t that they have been dangerous individuals, it’s simply that I used to be sort of nervous of his popularity,” she defined.
Cher additionally talked about how she nonetheless has it so collectively at her age, giving her mother credit score for good genes, saying “I stole my mother’s voice and used it to grow to be Cher.” She additionally revealed that Tupac Shakur is now considered one of her favourite artists. “I used to be so greatly surprised by the depth of the phrases,” she mentioned of the late rapper she was launched to by Edwards.
The interview additionally touched on which of her songs are her favourite — sure “Imagine” is on the record — and what she could be if she hadn’t grow to be who she is. “I can’t consider every other career that I’d have been good at,” she mentioned as Hudson urged stylist or mannequin; Cher famous that she modeled for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar at first of her profession, which late husband Sonny Bono didn’t like as a result of he was “actually, actually jealous.”
Watch Cher on the Jennifer Hudson Present under.
