Cher77, revealed why she dates younger men, like her current 38-year-old boyfriend Alexander «AE» Edwards. That is: because he is alive. And not in the sense of a joyful spirit “living in the moment,” but of a man physically alive.
«The reason why I date young men is that those my age are older… in fact, they are all dead now… before, however, they were always terrified of approaching me”, he told Jennifer Hudson on Wednesday’s episode of his show. “And the younger men… they were raised by women like me.” So when a potential lover tells Cher that she reminds him of her mother, it’s not an insult, but a plus.
Edwards, who Cher said she fell in love with via text and who she initially thought she was too old for, is not the singer’s first relationship with a big age gap, even if the four-decade gap there is among them it is the most significant. Cher has been linked to both Tom Cruise both a Val Kilmerboth about ten years younger than her, while the singer was 11 years younger than her first husband, Sonny Bono, who passed away in 1998.
Of course, Cher has been dishing out her truths about relationships with the opposite sex for a long time now. Who can forget the 1996 interview in which he compared men to dessert, saying, “A man is absolutely not a necessity”? When asked to clarify whether considering men as a small delight was a dig, he added: «Not at all, I love desserts. I love men. I think men are great, but you don’t really need them to live.”
And then, of course, the unforgettable response to her mother telling her to settle down and marry a rich man: “I said, ‘Mom, I’m the rich man.'” “My experience with men is excellent, because I choose them because I like them,” she concluded. “Not because I need them.”
Cher will celebrate her 78th birthday on May 20. Last year she publicly wondered when she would feel old, adding that she was “dyslexic” to the leitmotif “age is just a number”. Just a number, and her brain has a hard time processing it, so she just won’t do it. Iconic.
If Cher decides to move into life coaching, we want to be her first clients.
