Cher opened up about her relationship with her much younger boyfriend, Alexander “AE” Edwards, in a recent interview and says she is unbothered by criticisms of their 40-year age gap.
“Whatever. You know what? They’re not living my life. Nobody knows what goes on between us, but we just have a blast. Thank God, he just says, ‘You know, you get older, but your spirit is younger,” Cher, 79, told CBS Mornings cohost Gayle King.
“We laugh all the time, and I just love him. I think he’s beautiful. He’s really talented. Like, he’s one of the most talented persons I’ve ever met,” she continued.
The couple went public with the relationship back in November 2022. They split in May 2023, but we were back together just months later.
“Sometimes I’m talking to him and he has no idea who I’m talking about,” she said in an interview with Extra in October 2023. “The other day, I said, ‘Do you know who, I don’t know, Clark Gable [is]?’ Somebody said, ‘Yes, of course,’ but most of my references … He’ll look at me and go, ‘I wasn’t born yet.’”