Cher reveals which rock star boyfriend told her he loved her after just one date when ‘we hadn’t even kissed’

Cher has revealed which rock star boyfriend told her he loved her even though they had just one disastrous date and ‘haven’t even kissed’.

The 78-year-old has just published the first part of her two-part autobiography Cher: The Memoir, in which she lays bare her life and loves.

She tells the story of her two failed marriages to major music stars: Sonny Bono, with whom she rose to fame as a double act, and Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers.

But it was another singer who became so entranced by her on their first date that he called her from Japan shortly afterwards, ran up a $2,800 phone bill from talking for so long and “blurted out that he loved me.”

The gesture was particularly daring considering how disastrous their date had been: He had gone back and forth between flirting with Cher and one of her friends, managing to alienate both women in the process.

However, Cher and the world-famous rocker eventually managed to build a romantic bond that saw them dating for two years.

The boyfriend in question was none other than Gene Simmons of KISS fame, with whom she dated from 1977 to 1979, amid the mess of her marriage to Gregg.

She first met Gene at a fundraiser for Gerald Ford, which she attended despite being a Democrat because it was thrown by the head of her record label.

When asked if she wanted to meet Gene Simmons, she excitedly believed she was about to meet English actress Jean Simmons, who earned an Oscar nod for playing Ophelia opposite Laurence Olivier in a 1948 film by Hamlet.

Instead, she was confronted by the “tongue-wagging, creepy bassist,” who failed to impress her with his “deep rumble” of a voice, “as if he were trying to be sexy.”

Cher asked him point blank, “Is that your real voice or do you always talk like that?” – which chastised him enough to talk to her ‘normally’.

Ultimately, they got along, especially because Gene was sober—an important quality for Cher, whose marriage to heroin-addicted Gregg Allman had just ended.

Gene asked her out to a concert, and Cher agreed, but brought along her “good friend” Kate Jackson, one of the original Charlie’s Angels.

During the concert, “Gene spent the whole night flirting with me and Kate,” Cher recalls. “When he left we looked at each other and both said, ‘What an a**hole,’ so I thought that was that. He called the next day to apologize, but I told him neither Kate nor I liked him.”

The boyfriend in question was none other than Gene Simmons of KISS, whom she dated from 1977 to 1979; pictured 1979

They remained friends after he left her for her friend Diana Ross, and are pictured together at London’s Heathrow Airport in 1986.

The 78-year-old has just published the first part of her two-part autobiography Cher: The Memoir, in which she lays bare her life and loves; pictured on The Howard Stern Show last week

However, when Gene left for Japan on tour, he called Cher internationally, and had a conversation with her that was so long that “he ended up with a $2,800 phone bill.” Then he blurted out that he loved me. We hadn’t even kissed.’

She and Gene then began “what turned out to be a surprisingly fun relationship,” although she made sure the process was slow.

‘We didn’t even kiss at first because I didn’t want to yet. I’ve always felt like I don’t want to sleep with someone until I know for sure that I’ll be happy to wake up next to them the next morning. I don’t want to wake up next to someone I can’t talk to or, worse, someone I don’t like.”

Their relationship blossomed and he got along great with her children, who allowed him to “be the child he was inside” around them.

Gene even introduced Cher’s half-sister Georganne LaPierre to his KISS bandmate Paul Stanley, and they embarked on a romance of their own.

However, Cher – who has previously admitted that she and Gene were not monogamous – wrote in the book that she “only saw each other occasionally” because “most of my focus was on my career and my children” and they loved her enjoyed. independence.’

The relationship ended when Gene, wondering what to get Cher for Christmas, asked her friend Diana Ross for advice and ended up hooking up with her.