Cher breaks her silence on allegation she hired men to kidnap son
nypost.comCher has spoken about the allegation that she once hired men to kidnap her troubled son.The “Believe” singer, 77, told People “that rumor is not true,” and declined to comment further.Last month, a report surfaced that Cher allegedly hired four men to kidnap her son Elijah Blue Allman, 47, from a New York City hotel room in an apparent intervention in November 2022.Elijah’s estranged wife, Marieangela King, made the claim in divorce documents she filed last December.Although the Oscar winner kept mum about the claims, she did go on to speak with People about Allman’s alleged addiction issues.“I’m not suffering from any problem that millions of people in the United States aren’t,” she said of watching her son’s struggles with substance abuse. “I’m a mother.
This is my job — one way or another, to try to help my children. You do anything for your children. Whenever you can help them, you just do it because that’s what being a mother is.
But it’s joy, even with heartache — mostly, when you think of your children, you just smile and you love them, and you try to be there for them.”She added: “I could fill … something gigantic with what I don’t know [about parenting].
I just keep trying.”Cher had Elijah with the late Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band. In the court documents, King alleged that the “Mamma Mia!
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