Cher released the first installment of a planned two-part memoir Tuesday, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” spanning roughly the first half of the 78-year-old entertainer’s life, with anecdotes about a marriage to Sonny Bono she called “ loveless ” that led her to consider suicide at the height of their television fame in the 1970s.

Though Cher and Sonny Bono’s marriage lasted less than a decade, their musical hits endured. Yet Cher details in her new memoir that the success of her creative partnership with her late husband wasn’t equally shared.

Cher sits down with TODAY for a candid discussion on her legendary career, her tumultuous relationship with Sonny Bono, and the advice she got from Lucille Ball, all detailed in her new book “Cher: The Memoir,

Cher has always been supportive of her son Chaz Bono’s gender identity — and she’s making no exception in her memoir. According to The New York Times, the pop legend makes a disclaimer toward the front of Cher: The Memoir,

The Memoir, Part 1,' the entertainment legend looks back on her breaking point with husband Sonny Bono, revealing that after considering leaping from a hotel balcony in Las Vegas, she decided, "I can just leave him.

Volume 1 of the singer's long-awaited life story covers roughly the period from her birth to 1980, when Cher, a twice-divorced single mother with two children, found herself at a professional crossroads.

These days, Cher — now 78 — prefers dating younger men. She has a 40-year age gap with her boyfriend, Alexander Edwards.

Cher, who met 27-year-old Sonny Bono when she was 16, says their age gap wasn't strange because 'he was kind of childish.'

Babe, wake up, Cher’s memoir is out today! For anyone fond of the Goddess of Pop’s past penchant for strange tweets, it will come as no surprise that the memoir is fantastic. Straight and to the point,