Cher names the one and only celebrity who broke up with her... revealing she was 'madly in love' with him

Cher has peeled backmost yet different intriguing furniture of her iconic life, revealing the 1 and lone personage she dated who broke up with her.

The 78-year-old diva was promoting her caller publication Cher: The Memoir connected The Howard Stern Show connected Thursday.

The longtime daze jock asked if guys 'expect fabulous enactment due to the fact that you're Cher,' and she rapidly answered, 'Yes, and they get it.

When asked however she could tell, she said, 'You could archer by the reaction,' which prompted Stern to ask, 'Who would ever permission you?'

'Few men, fewer men,' she said, earlier elaborating, 'Look, I was madly successful emotion with Val Kilmer and helium left.' 

The singer/actress and the histrion dated for 2 years betwixt 1982 and 1984, with their 13-year property spread raising galore eyebrows successful Hollywood astatine that time.

When asked wherefore helium left, Cher said, 'Because sometimes you're lone meant to enactment with idiosyncratic truthful long,' adding, 'he was truly young.'

Cher revealed backmost successful 2018 that, 'When we kissed, I thought my caput would sprout close disconnected my body.'

Then successful 2021, she opened up successful much item astir the relationship, revealing wherever they met.

'I met him astatine a day enactment my person was having for me. She said, "I invited this feline and I deliberation either you oregon my person who's an exertion volition similar him,"' Cher explained.

'We became friends due to the fact that we laughed astatine the aforesaid things constantly. He would slumber implicit and it was conscionable a relationship [at first.] That took a agelong time. Well, I conjecture not truly a agelong time,' she said.

She besides admitted that their 13-year property gap, 'was a bigger woody backmost then,' with Kilmer making his big-screen debut successful Top Secret successful 1984, the twelvemonth they broke up.

He followed that up with 1985's Real Genius and 1986's Top Gun and his vocation was afloat launched.

Cher added that she watched his 2021 documentary Val, and wrote to him aft she watched it.

'I said, "Valus Maximus, I'm atrocious if I did thing to piss you disconnected oregon wounded your feelings. I emotion you and your documentary was each things... I emotion the things that pissed maine off, the things that made maine hysterical, amazed, hurt, astonished, etc. You are brave and beyond brilliant. Ethel,' she said, referring to their nicknames for 1 another.

She added of the documentary, 'He's a existent creator and Renaissance man. He was sick and it didn't halt him. He created an hold of his creation and his life.'

'Look what helium created and adjacent the things helium fto you spot that cipher would fto you see. Even the worst things, helium wanted to beryllium successful the documentary due to the fact that helium wanted to amusement you who helium was,' she said.