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."
From his wife, naturally.
Yeesh.......makes one wonder why God even bothers being patient with us humans.........
Mike Penner / Christine Daniels underwent the male-to-female transformation and committed suicide a year later:
“Notice she was a lesbian, became a “man” and now has a boyfriend.”
Almost everything about this story is disturbing, but the most disturbing of all is that there is a man out there who would touch it with a ten foot pole.
I kinda feel sorry for her, too. She’s being honest about it. Now a very close relative of mine worked on the old Sonny and Cher Show and disliked Cher INTENSELY. He thought Sonny was great but Cher screamed like a banshee incessantly. So the poor kid probably had no chance.
Warren Beatty is having the same trouble - his daughter has become a man, lol! Maybe having sex with a thousand partners affects babies. Who knows?
I feel sorry for everyone involved here. What a flippin’ mess.
I see no winners.
I agree with you, mostly. Certainly Cher’s actions early in her daughter’s life heavily influenced her psychosis. But perhaps, just perhaps, this is God’s way of getting Cher’s attention. One never knows.
Well, I don’t feel sorry for her. She is one of the most obnoxious big mouthed liberal jerks to walk this planet.
What about all that "herbal Viagra" that Seal Team 6 brought back from Pakistan? OBL had 3 wives...and if I read the reports correctly, they hadn't left that compound in 5 years.
With his cash, OBL likely had a huge stash of the stuff.
I’m with you on this, jocon. There are parents who regard Cher as extremely fortunate to have a daughter alive rather than dead or missing.
They get the “man parts” from Hillary’s Lock Box!
AMEN!
The guy has a face that screams out, “I’ll be in prison within the year!”
I think that was Cher talking bout HER boyfriend.
These people are doing the best they can to deal with some very serious problems. It is very unlikely that those who ridicule them could do any better--or, judging from the level of their remarks, as well.
I’m so confused
The Republican Party holds a donor drive every four years.
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