Cher was 'shocked' when she discovered legal name decades after birth certificate error

Cher recalled however she reacted upon archetypal learning of her ineligible sanction erstwhile she was successful her 30s.

In her caller memoir "Cher: The Memoir, Part One," the 77-year-old singer wrote astir requesting a transcript of her commencement certificate erstwhile she applied to legally alteration her sanction to her celebrated mononym successful 1979. The Grammy Award victor wrote that she was "shocked" to spot that her archetypal sanction was listed arsenic "Cheryl" connected the document.

"I believed Cherilyn was my sanction until the time years aboriginal erstwhile I decided to legally alteration my sanction to simply Cher," the "Moonstruck" histrion remembered successful her book, according to People magazine.

Cher was "shocked" to archetypal find retired her ineligible sanction successful her 30s. (STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Cher's precocious mother, Georgia Holt, was 19 erstwhile she gave commencement to the vocalist successful 1946. In her book, Cher explained that Holt went into labour a period earlier than her expected owed date. Cher wrote that her parent endured a agelong labour without medicine astatine a tiny infirmary successful El Centro, California.

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 "She was exhausted by the clip I arrived astatine astir 7:30 a.m. connected Monday, May 20," the euphony icon wrote. 

After Holt gave commencement to Cher, a caregiver visited her to inquire what sanction she had chosen for her baby.

"My parent had nary idea, but the pistillate insisted truthful she replied, ‘Well, Lana Turner’s my favourite histrion and her small girl’s called Cheryl. My mother’s sanction is Lynda, truthful however astir Cherilyn?'" Cher wrote.

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The singer's parent Georgia Holt gave commencement to Cher erstwhile she was 19. ( Margaret Norton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

Since she was exhausted and recovering from the hard labor, Holt didn't announcement that the caregiver erroneously registered her newborn's sanction arsenic Cheryl.

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Cher recalled that she confronted her parent aft making the find and asked Holt, "Do you adjacent cognize my existent name, Mom?"

"I believed Cherilyn was my sanction until the time years aboriginal erstwhile I decided to legally alteration my sanction to simply Cher."

The "Believe" songstress wrote that Georgia took the commencement certificate from her girl and past shrugged aft looking astatine the document.

"I was lone a teenager, and I was successful a batch of pain. Give maine a break," Cher recalled her parent telling her.

The Grammy victor changed her sanction to her celebrated mononym successful 1979. ( Ron Tom/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

Cher is the lone kid of Holt and John Sarkisian, who divorced erstwhile the vocalist was 10-months-old. Holt and Sarkisian joined again successful 1965 but divorced the pursuing year. In summation to Sarkisian, Holt was joined to 5 different husbands. Her past matrimony was to Hamilton T. Holt, whom she wed successful 1970. Though the 2 divorced successful 1974, Holt kept her ex-husband's surname until she died astatine the property of 96 successful 2022.

After Holt's 3rd hubby Gilbert LaPiere legally adopted Cher, the vocalist took his past name. Cher besides took the surnames of her ex-husbands Sonny Bono and Gregg Allman. 

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The Oscar victor decided to driblet each 4 of her surnames which included Sarkisian, LaPiere, Bono and Allman erstwhile she legally changed her sanction to "Cher."