Cher shared an intense and uncomfortable moment in an interview with the late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after taking offense at a question she thought was "stupid".
The icy exchange began when Kimmel asked her if she had finished the second part of her book, to which she replied no.
Jimmy Kimmel then continued to poke fun at Cher as he expressed doubt that she would finish before the November release date after she admitted that she hadn't "even started".
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Cher and Jimmy Kimmel have a tense exchange over her memoir
Cher appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show Tuesday night, where she was peppered with some quick questions about her life.
However, according to Daily Mail"Heart of Stone" seemed put off by some of Kimmel's questions, leading to an awkward moment on set.
In the conversation, while promoting her book "Cher: The Memoir," the first part of which was released in November 2024, Kimmel asked the singer if she had started the second part before the November 2025 release date.
"The second part of your book, have you finished it yet?" Kimmel asked, which seemed to set the singer off.
At first, Cher responded with a laugh before admitting she hadn't "even started."
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Kimmel seemed shocked and asked if it was "correct" that she didn't start, causing Cher to stare at him coldly.
The typically affable Kimmel then expressed doubt that she would have finished it before November if she hadn't "even started."
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The singer called Jimmy Kimmel's questions "stupid"
While Cher kept cool during the interview, Kimmel said of her memoir, "So it's not coming out in November."
"Yes, it is," Cher replied, insisting it would be released in November, to which Kimmel teased, "We'll see."
The conversation turned to a couple between the two before Kimmel jokingly offered to help with the memoir, which Cher politely declined.
As the show wore on, Kimmel began to ask another question, but the music legend had seemingly had enough and shut him down before he could finish his statement.
Near the end of the interview, Kimmel asked the music legend one more question, saying, "If you could turn back time (a reference to Cher's hit single 'If I Could Turn Back Time)'," but before he could finish, the singer he interjected.
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"This is so stupid," Cher said as she tried to come up with an answer.
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Cher reveals the reason behind her longtime romance with Sonny Bono
Elsewhere in her chat with Kimmel, Cher, born Cheryl Sarkisian, went further to weigh in on her relationship with Sonny Bono as she revealed the reason they stayed together for so long.
She shared a tumultuous marriage with Bono from 1964 to 1975 and starred with him on "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour."
According to Daily Mailthe singer told Kimmel that their time on the show kept their marriage going for a long time.
"I have to tell you something. Working on the show kept us together because we had so much fun on the show. We were equals, you know?" Cher started.
"It was -- I mean, I loved it -- I loved it. We loved it. We worked so well together. We had a lot of fun and it really kept us closer than I really wanted," Cher added.
The singer credits a mystery man with helping her leave Sonny Bono
During the interview, Cher credited the mystery man with helping her leave Bono. Although she mentioned him in her book, she didn't name him on TV because she thought about how it made him feel.
"I have people that I mentioned there, and I wonder, you know, what they think. Like, one guy in particular, who was ... he was very instrumental in helping me leave Sonny," Cher said.
"I wonder, I mentioned his full name, so, I wonder, how does that make him feel? But he must feel good because he was a really good person," she added.
The actress then noted that she thought the person was currently in Texas, although she chose not to have Kimmel find him and call him on the phone.
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Cher revealed the identity of the "weird" music producer who forced her to have sex at the age of 15
The Kimmel interview comes after Cher revealed the identity of the music producer who pressured her into sex at age 15 and later pulled a gun on her.
In her book, she detailed a "strange" encounter she had in the early 1960s with the late Phil Spector, whom she met through her then-boyfriend Antonin LoTempi.
"He may have been a demigod to many, but he was acting strange and I didn't like the way he was staring at me," she wrote of the music producer in her memoir before recounting the shocking moment he asked her to sleep with him.
"'Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?' he said, laughing, asking me to sleep with him," Cher wrote. She then wrote her reply, telling him that she would have sex with him in exchange for money.
"Without breaking a sweat, I glanced at him and replied, 'Oui, pour l'argent,'" she shared.
Cher added in her book: "You could have knocked him down with a pen. He didn't think I would understand the question, let alone have the answer."
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