Cher totally gets that it’s a fun parlor game to make jokes about her dating much younger men. But the joke is on you, because the 77-year-old ageless pop wonder has the very best reason for romancing men half her age.
“I’m really shy when I’m not working and kind of shy around men,” she told Jennifer Hudson on Wednesday (May 1) on the singer’s daytime talk show. But here’s the real kicker: “And the reason I go out with young men is because men my age or older — well, now they’re all dead — but before they just never, they were always terrified to approach me and younger men were the only ones that…”
“They’re bold,” Hudson helped her out, with mother of two Cher laughing, “Yeah! Raised by women like me!” The topic came up because the “Believe” singer has recently been linked with 38-year-old music exec Alexander “A.E.” Edwards. Cher went Insta official with Edwards in Nov. 2022 with a pic of them holding hands. When asked if he was her “new man,” she posted a smiling emoji, shutting down haters comments on their 40-year age gap by saying “love doesn’t know math” then doubling-down on that emotion in January after posting another snuggly shot captioned “Love is Love.”
She also confirmed that she’d once turned down a date with Elvis Presley, also for good reason. “It was because I was nervous and I knew of the people around him and it wasn’t that they were bad people, it’s just that I was kind of nervous of his reputation,” she explained.
Cher also talked about how she still has it so together at her age, giving her mom credit for good genes, saying “I stole my mom’s voice and used it to become Cher.” She also revealed that Tupac Shakur is now one of her favorite artists. “I was so taken aback by the depth of the words,” she said of the late rapper she was introduced to by Edwards.
The interview also touched on which of her songs are her favorite — yes “Believe” is on the list — and what she would be if she hadn’t become who she is. “I can’t think of any other profession that I would have been good at,” she said as Hudson suggested stylist or model; Cher noted that she modeled for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar at the beginning of her career, which late husband Sonny Bono didn’t like because he was “really, really jealous.”
Watch Cher on the Jennifer Hudson Show below.