Cher opens up about her marriage to Sonny Bono in her new memoir, 'Cher: The Memoir, Part One.' She reveals that she'd just suffered a third miscarriage when she caught Bono cheating with his secretary.

Cher alleged in her new memoir that she caught ex-husband Sonny Bono cheating on her with his secretary around 1967, when she was suffering from her third miscarriage.

Even when that past involves talking about some uncomfortable topics, including the age gap between her and late ex-husband Sonny Bono. Salvatore Bono entered Cher’s life as a protector and champion,

I figured I’d plead insanity … Then I’d get a book deal and my own show,” Cher alleges Sonny told her after admitting to thinking about killing her.

While Sonny passed in 1998, according to Rolling Stone Cher still isn’t fully financial free of him. Despite securing a victory in her Sonny And Cher royalty lawsuit against Bono’s widow Mary, opposing counsel have gone on to argue that Cher isn’t “entitled” to the finances.

Cher was 16 when she met the 27-year-old record producer Sonny Bono. She was 18 when she married Bono — her first marriage, his second — and 19 when the couple released the smash 1965 single “I Got You,

Though Cher and Sonny Bono’s marriage lasted less than a decade, their musical hits endured. Yet Cher details in her new memoir that the success of her creative partnership with her late husband wasn’t equally shared.

In 1972, Sonny Bono told Cher he “seriously thought” about how he’d kill his then-wife, and how he’d parlay his infamy into a new career.