Key Highlights
- Cher is opening up about how her late ex-husband Sonny Bono controlled her during their marriage and musical partnership.
- On Monday's episode of "Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard," the 79-year-old singer reflected on her turbulent personal and professional relationship with Bono, with whom she rose to fame in the 1960s as the pop duo Sonny & Cher.
- In 1962, the former couple first met in Los Angeles when Cher was 16 and Bono was a 27-year-old aspiring music producer.
- Bono, who was working with record producer Phil Spector at the time, became Cher’s mentor, manager and creative partner.
- The two formed Sonny & Cher in 1964 and they tied the knot during an unofficial wedding ceremony in Tijuana, Mexico later that year.
