Do you believe in life after love? Because Cher is singing about her new love interest from the rooftops.
This week, the singer/actor confirmed that she is in a new relationship with 36-year-old music executive Alexander 'A.E.' Edwards. The two have been seen out together in the Los Angeles celebrity scene, with Cher saying she is officially in love with her new boyfriend.
But the response online wasn't all rosy, with some suggesting the 40-year age gap between the two is cause for concern.
A.E. is a music producer who owns the record label Gloryus, which has worked with a bunch of well-known artists including Tyga, Jay-Z, Frank Ocean, Mariah Carey, Rihanna and Kanye West.
He's also known for his highly publicised relationship with ex Amber Rose. The pair were together for a number of years before splitting a year ago. While together they welcomed a son Slash, who is now three.
According to Amber, the relationship fractured due to A.E.'s infidelity.
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"I'm tired of getting cheated on and being embarrassed behind the scenes," Amber wrote in her Instagram Stories after the split. "All 12 of y'all bums (the ones that I know of there's probably more) can have him. Y'all very much knew he was in a relationship with a baby and y'all decided to f**k him anyway. I saw all the texts and DM's. Y'all were well aware but y'all don't owe me any loyalty so it's whatever."
Soon after Amber's comments, A.E. then confirmed the rumours, saying: "I woke up to this s**t, man… I thought, 'S**t, I got caught. I got caught before, you know what I'm saying? And she's just had enough, obviously. I love her, though. That's like my best friend, the mother of my son."
In a string of since-deleted tweets, Cher said she and her new boyfriend are in love.
She wrote: "Love doesn't know math, it sees. As we all know, I wasn't born yesterday and what I know for sure – there are no guarantees. Anytime you make a choice you take a chance. I've always taken chances. It's who I am."
Their time together was cut short though, when at the end of 1979, Cher told Gene to go shopping with her best friend to buy a Christmas gift for Cher. And her best friend happened to be Diana Ross. Gene and Diana soon started dating, and that meant the end of Cher and Gene's relationship.
Her next high-profile boyfriend was none other than Tom Cruise. They were together in the mid-80s – she was 39 and he was 23 at the time.
"He wasn't a Scientologist then... It was pretty hot and heavy for a little minute," she said to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. "He's a great guy. The person that I knew was a great and lovable guy. He was in the top five [of her best lovers]. He was so wonderful."
The next major man in Cher's life was Robert Camilletti.
They met in the 1980s, with Robert being an actor.
The couple also had a decent age gap, with Cher 40 and Robert 22 at the time. He was notably Cher's date for the 1988 Oscars when she took home the Best Actress statue for her performance in Moonstruck.
And over the next couple of decades, Cher's kept her love life relatively hidden from the spotlight. That is until now, with new boyfriend A.E.
Recently, Cher had said she has always been on the lookout for a lasting relationship.
"I'm still on the lookout. The problem I have with all the boyfriends lately is that I don't want to go any place with them because you can't keep a relationship going in this kind of goldfish bowl, where everything you do and every picture you have taken will be on Instagram. There's no way to keep something… special."
This article was originally published on November 9, 2022 and was updated on November 27, 2022.
Feature Image: Getty/Instagram @ae4president.
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