Leaving aside the fact that “have you ever had a lesbian fling” and “have you ever slept with a woman” are two entirely different questions, let’s take a minute to try and guess what woman Cher slept with (dare we say dated?).
And don’t come at me with “stealing a horse and dating a woman aren’t really comparable,” this is Cher and she comes from a different era and she is doing her best, damnit.
But Cruise, who Cher dated in the mid-1980s, wasn’t the only paramour Cher dished about. The star also told Cohen that she had a lesbian fling.
“Oh God, who hasn’t. Yeah,” Cher said, when Cohen asked if she had ever been with a woman. “I stole a horse when I was 13, you know, so why wouldn’t I?”
No, shut up, it’s airtight. Why wouldn’t you? Maybe she stole the horse to sneak off to woo farm girls, as Sunil pointed out.
God love her:
In a segment called “Truth or Cher?” Cohen asked the “Believe” singer whom she would rank as her best lover.
“A lot of them kind of came in first,” Cher diplomatically replied. “I’ve just had the greatest lovers ever.”
I have no interest in talking about what she meant by those Tom Cruise remarks.
Tags: cher, interviews, lesbians everywhere, making people lesbians by argument
Here’s an alphabetical list of who was on the Sonny and Cher show as guests. Oh the possibilities. Barbi Benton! Joey Heatherton! Sandy Duncan! Carol Burnett! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sonny_%26_Cher_C…
Yes to all of them but especially Carol Burnett!
I see Billie Jean King on that list.
My money (as always) is on Ruth Buzzi.
PULLS UP A GODDAMN CHAIR, PARKS IT
I MEAN
She didn’t say it WASN’T a threeway.
I do remember reading an ’80s Vanity Fair article about Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer being very close friends. Hmm.
The banana in this picture is a clue.
I had such a crush on Bernadette Peters when I was 10 or so! I hope it was her!!
Okay, that picture of Cher standing next to Nancy Reagan and positively BEAMING like they are BFFs is quite possibly my new favorite picture ever.
Good lord, Cher, you are not one of us (mere mortals), but you are magnificent.
I call Kelly McGillis!
Her fling? A horse.
*slow clap*
I’m going to go with Meryl Streep back when they did Silkwood togther, just because I love Meryl Streep.
Also Cher in Silkwood is smokin’
Last week I spent quite a bit of time reading those “What it’s like dating your dad” and “What it’s like to date a horse” articles. Gagging now to read “What it’s like to date Cher”.
“What it’s like to date Cher on a stolen horse”
“What it’s like for your dad to date Cher on a stolen horse.”
I have to ask my dad if he would get over his fear of horses if it meant he got to date Cher.
(Probably it would depend on what decade Cher it is. I assume that my dad, like I and all other reasonable persons, prefers 1980s Cher.)
The place to look is in her lyrics. The clues must be there! Consider all the names you can extract from D O Y O U B E L I E V E I N L I F E A F T E R L O V E:
-Eve
-Ellen
-Vera
-Violet
-Dot
-Lilly
-Bea
-Dolly
-Ivy
-Lydia
-Beula
-Linda Ronstadt
-Belle
-Faye
DOLLY
I’M VOTING FOR DOLLY
BEA ARTHUR. write me the fan fic, internet.
I would pay to read this.
in the season six episode of the golden girls that is actually about blanche’s recurring dream, dorothy and sonny bono have a thing. COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT
I have never stolen a horse. Am I really gay?
Also, please let it be Michelle Pfeiffer.
So I googled more info and an earlier article (from 2002: no idea how factual it is) says this “fling” happened in the ’60s, so maybe it is Ronstadt.
I WOULD DIE
Dolly Parton. Who cares if they’ve never worked together, or that it makes no sense. This is my headcanon now.
Dolly+Cher+sequins together 4eva
Never worked together you say…
Prepare to BELIEVE!
After the recording they both ran off and spent 7 blissful months entwined together on a tropical beach, right?
Scene: Nighttime in a villa in St Marteen
-Cher, baby, what’s wrong?
Nothing….it’s just sometimes I get tired of being the big spoon. I’ve always been the big spoon. Even with Sonny. Especially with Sonny. Is it wrong to just want to be taken care of, instead of the caretaker?
-No, sweetness. I’ll always take care of you. Now come here and be my little sugar spoon.
I love you. How about we both be the little spoons sometimes?
It was 6 months of uncomplicated bliss. In the 7th month, both their lives started to interfere. They had long emotional conversations all night, ultimately deciding to end things and go back to Hollywood and Nashville.
But, every year, Cher said, every year we’ll come back here for a week. Just us. No work, no men, just us and the sea. Dolly kept the promise,and every first week of October they both came to stay at Casa Butterfly (Dolly named it). The affair ended years ago, the passion having been tempered by an unpleasant feeling that they were having to hide something. But they still came.
Now they spend their days sipping Cher’s special rum punch and talking. After all these years, Casa Butterfly is looking it’s age. Cher has proposed bringing in a team to redecorate, but Dolly won’t hear of it. She says she likes knowing where everything is. So Cher smiles at her, and hands her a glass as they sit and watch the sun set over the water.
Ok, now I need a Dolly/Cher version of Islands in the Stream
I swear I can feel the sexual tension in that video! All that clapping, Cher looking up at Angel Dolly, dancing around underneath her.
The bit where Cher climbs up the ladder and they take each other’s hand and there’s a fricking thunderclap? (2:40)
Please. These two must have tried out something.
I always thought Kristen Bell was miscast in the delightfully lady-filled Burlesque… can you imagine if they’d cast Dolly?
Bloody lesbians, always stealing horses.
I mean, if you’ve already taken up livestock rustling, lesbianism seems like the next logical step.
Indeed, or vice versa.
Sorry (not sorry) for going off topic but I cannot contain my excitement at this video: Broad City interviewing Sleater Kinney!
YESSSSS so much love and joy and power http://bitchmagazine.org/post/that-time-sleater-k…
(I need to get twitter)
in the season six episode of the golden girls that is actually about blanche's recurring dream, dorothy and sonny bono have a thing. COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT
She didn't say it WASN'T a threeway.
Olympia Dukakis, Moonstruck, in that apartment, because she was sick to damn death of Nic Cage and what’s his dad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5RJSyzoYdw&s… Is it possible Cher had a fling with herself?
Stevie Nicks
Maybe Ronnie Spector or Darlene Love? Cher sang back-up on a bunch of those old Phil Spector productions. She has a lesbian fling in the film CHASTITY (1969) with Barbara London. Check it out on You Tube. It was actually probably some unknown teenage girl and likely happened before she was even famous.
No Keli Roberts?
It was Deirdre Flynn, daughter of Errol. Deirdre was quite the swain in her day, and also dated Judy Carne.