Cher recalled finding out her legal first name when she was in her 30s. The singer believed that she was named Cherilyn but discovered an error was made on her birth certificate.

Cher recalls a curious interlude from her rich and many-chaptered history in her new book “Cher: The Memoir, Part One.” The Oscar- and Grammy-winner writes about how, when she went to apply to change her legal name in 1979, she was “shocked” to ...

Cherilyn Sarkisian — recounts how she applied for a copy of her birth certificate in 1979 and was "shocked" to see that her first name was registered as Cheryl."I believed Cherilyn was my name until the day years later when I decided to legally change my name to simply Cher,

Promoting the memoir in an interview with The Times, Cher said there were just two directors she didn’t enjoy working with: Peter Bogdanovich and “the guy from The Muppets”, apparently referring to Frank OZ, known for his work directing The Muppets movies who was hired to direct the 1990 film Mermaids, in which Cher starred.

In a 2019 interview with Vulture, Bogdanovich had claimed that Cher was the most difficult actor he had ever worked with. She "didn’t trust anybody, especially men." "That’s w