Cher completely will get that it’s a enjoyable parlor recreation to make jokes about her relationship a lot youthful males. However the joke is on you, as a result of the 77-year-old ageless pop marvel has the perfect cause for romancing males half her age.
“I’m actually shy once I’m not working and type of shy round males,” she instructed Jennifer Hudson on Wednesday (Could 1) on the singer’s daytime speak present. However right here’s the true kicker: “And the explanation I am going out with younger males is as a result of males my age or older — properly, now they’re all lifeless — however earlier than they only by no means, they had been all the time terrified to method me and youthful males had been the one ones that…”
“They’re daring,” Hudson helped her out, with mom of two Cher laughing, “Yeah! Raised by ladies like me!” The subject got here up as a result of the “Consider” singer has just lately 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 cause. “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 had been unhealthy individuals, it’s simply that I used to be type of nervous of his status,” 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 turn into Cher.” She additionally revealed that Tupac Shakur is now considered one of her favourite artists. “I used to be so shocked by the depth of the phrases,” she stated of the late rapper she was launched to by Edwards.
The interview additionally touched on which of her songs are her favourite — sure “Consider” is on the record — and what she can be if she hadn’t turn into who she is. “I can’t consider every other career that I might have been good at,” she stated as Hudson recommended stylist or mannequin; Cher famous that she modeled for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar in the beginning 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.