Cher has shared the real reason why she only dates younger men.
While on The Jennifer Hudson Show, the 77-year-old – who is currently dating 38-year-old Alexander Edwards – quipped: “I’m really shy when I’m not working and kind of shy around men and the reason I got with young men is because men my age are older.”
“Well, now they’re all dead but before, they were always terrified to approach me and younger men were the only ones.” Cher even quipped that she once turned down Elvis Presley as a suitor.
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She revealed: “I was nervous and I knew of the people around him and it wasn’t that they were bad people, it’s just that I was kind of nervous of his reputation.” This isn’t the first time Cher has addressed her love life.
Back in 2023, the songstress spoke to ET about Alexander, also known as AE, and opened up about their age gap romance. She explained: “I was in a place where I couldn’t do much and I kept saying: ‘I’m not the right woman for you. First of all, I’m 100 years older than you and secondly, your friends [wouldn’t think you were] cool if you were caught hanging with me,’ you know?”
According to the star, her beau – who is 39 years her junior – wasn’t bothered by her comment. The Believe singer said: “He said: ‘Why don’t you let me be the judge of that?’ And then we just happened.” When talking about her love life, she has previously said: “I told my friends, don’t fall in love with a younger man, we’re too old. And don’t fall in love by text. There goes that theory.”
In the months after she began dating Alexander, Cher has spoken out against naysayers and defended her relationship with Edwards, stating that “love doesn’t know math”. Cher has dated a number of famous faces, including her ex Sonny Bono, one half of the performing duo Sonny & Cher.
Perhaps her most famous ex is Hollywood movie star Tom Cruise. The pair shared a 16-year age gap, but despite this the pair began seeing each other back in 1985 when Tom was just 23 and she was 38.
The duo met at Madonna’s wedding to Sean Penn but Cher didn’t actually publicly admit their fling until 2008.
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