These thoughts, she wrote, stemmed from her unhappiness in her marriage to Sonny Bono. The pair officially tied the knot in the 1960s and welcomed one child, Chaz Bono, in 1969, before divorcing in 1975. In her memoir, Cher wrote that when she was 26 and frustrated with her “loveless marriage,” she contemplated ending her life multiple times.

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.

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.