Posted on 05/10/2011 4:27:47 AM PDT by TSgt
Cher spent months avoiding her transgender son Chaz Bono as he went through the process to become a man. She says she was terrified she wouldn't recognize him as her child.
Bono was born Chastity - Cher and ex-husband Sonny Bono's only daughter - and she broke her mother's heart when she came out as a lesbian. Chaz feared more heartbreak was to come when he revealed his plans to undergo a lengthy and extensive sex change procedure, but Cher took the news well.
However, once the process started, the pop superstar kept her distance.
In new documentary Becoming Chaz, which debuted on Oprah Winfrey's new OWN network, Cher says, "I was so nervous. I hadn't seen her... and I was putting it off.
"My boyfriend finally said, 'This is crazy, just do it.' I said, 'I'm so terrified of what will happen. If I don't recognize her, what will happen?"
Cher admits there are many changes she's slowly having to come to terms with: "At some point, I'm gonna have to start calling her 'him'... It doesn't seem comfortable to me yet. Actually I just can't remember... and I guess I'll start forcing myself... (but) I'm not sure she cares."
She reveals she asked her transgender son if she could have a copy of his old voicemail message - because it was her daughter speaking.
She adds, "I was hysterical one day because I was calling Chaz's answering machine and I realized it was her old voice, and then I said, 'Chaz is there a way I can save it because I will never hear that voice again?' And there wasn't, it was gone.
"That's the most traumatic thing that has happened to me in this whole thing - hearing her voice and knowing I'll never hear it again."
” She needs Jesus.”
AMEN!!!
What I thought was interesting was that when Chastity came out of the closet, liberal, free-thinking Cher was incensed; while conservative, narrow-minded Sonny accepted his daughter’s lifestyle.
If you really REALLY wants to know, google sex change operation doctors then click onto their sites.
They have before and after pics of both. The woman becoming a man “thing” is freakish looking!
They even explain how they do it.
Assorted RINOs, and others who have no further use for them.
Billy Joel and Bruce Willis' daughters also come to mind.
“If you really REALLY wants to know...”
Can’t say I do.
Lol, but they’re so weird looking, tiny and so deformed!
“Sonny hasn’t since 1998.”
Well I believe in an afterlife, and in terms of my own personal experience I have felt my mom’s love and gotten her aid afer her death.
But, if you don’t believe in that I won’t argue with you.
“But for many mothers, a mile in Cher’s shoes would be walking on air.”
Yes, yes, agreed. There are worse things than this that can happen.
You love your kids so much, it can really hurt.
“Chastity only had her breasts removed”
Wonder if she donated them? /s
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