Cher says her number is listed under ‘Lucille Ball’ on her phone – NBC10 Philadelphia

To ask Cher You won’t get him for his number. From where? The singer undoubtedly does not know his own phone number.

On November 20, he opened up to friend and former NBC News correspondent Harry Smith. A conversation about her new book “Cher: The Memoir, Part One” About his dyslexia and its impact on his life.

“But I want to tell you something really embarrassing,” he said. “I don’t know my address, I don’t know my phone number.”

“But I don’t care!” he added. “If people want to find me, they will.”

Throughout her memoir, Cher explains that she always knew there was something wrong with her and that she struggled especially in school as a child.

It was only later in his life that he received some answers about himself. first child Chaz BonoHe was diagnosed as dyslexic by experts in his childhood.

“When I read some of the literature they sent me about dyslexia, I thought: ‘Oh… This is me,’” Cher writes in her book, describing the moment her child was diagnosed.

He says he had “never heard the word” until Chaz was diagnosed. “But it explained so much.”

“It felt like an old mystery from my childhood had finally been solved,” she adds, noting that “the difference was that there were systems in place to help her child that were “never available” to her.

Cher told Smith she had a creative solution when she needed to look up his phone number.

“I have a mobile phone. If I want to know what my phone number is, I just click on ‘Lucille Ball’. “That’s my name,” he explained.

Ball has a special history with Cher. In her memoir, Cher recalls attending an election results party hosted by Jack Benny with the TV star in 1972.

Cher explains that she didn’t want to be at the party, writing, “Lucille was clearly bored too, because as the votes started coming in she started making jokes about the ‘airbags’ with comments on what each update meant.”

He was taken by Ball’s antics.

“I’ve known him since I was little, but he got me into trouble tonight. “I couldn’t stop giggling at his comment,” she writes.

“He was being very funny and disrespectful. “If you knew Lucy, she was a balls-to-the-wall girl who didn’t take anything from anyone,” he adds.

Eventually their giggling got annoying then-husband Sonny Bonoand party guest Johnny Carson.

Cher says Carson “complained to Jack Benny’s wife about the disturbance” and was sure Ball would get in trouble.

“Then I realized no one would say a word to him because he would sterilize them. “Everyone was afraid of Lucy,” Cher writes. “But I was something else entirely. I was banished to the study like a naughty child.”

Before long, Cher turned to Ball when she needed advice on how to break up with Bono. She decided to call Ball because the “I Love Lucy” star was in a similar situation and eventually divorced from her TV co-star Desi Arnaz.

“I told her, ‘Lucy, I want to break up with Sonny and you’re the only person I know who’s in the same situation.’ What should I do?’ Lucy and her husband also became famous by working together as stars on television. And he was also a huge womanizer. Then Lucy left him. “He told me, ‘F— o, you’re the talented one,'” he writes.

Cher and Bono eventually divorced in 1975, and she married Gregg Allman shortly after. She and Allman welcomed a son together, Elijah Blue, in 1976 and divorced a few years later.

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