Last month it was being reported that Cher hired four men to kidnap her son, but according to a new interview with PEOPLE, Cher is finally addressing the accusations and letting it be known that the “rumor is not true.”
Cher’s son Elijah Blue’s divorce documents between him and his wife, Marie Angela King were revealed to the public and in those documents King claimed she and Allman had spent 12 days alone together in New York leading up to their wedding anniversary on Nov. 30. They were there to work on their broken marriage and she alleges that it was during that trip that the kidnapping occurred. “I am currently unaware of my husband’s wellbeing or whereabouts. I am very concerned and worried about him,” she writes in the 2022 filing. She also claimed that one of the four men confirmed “they were hired by petitioner’s mother,” adding: “ I have been told that I am not allowed to see or speak to [Allman] who is currently in lockdown at a treatment facility that is undisclosed to me. I am also told [Allman] has no access to his phone.”
“On November 30, 2022, the night of our wedding anniversary, four people came to our hotel room and removed [Elijah] from our room. I was told by one of the four men who took him that they were hired by [Elijah’s] mother. I am currently unaware of my husband’s wellbeing or whereabouts,’ although she added that he was in ‘lockdown at a treatment facility that is undisclosed to me. I understand his family’s efforts to make sure he is well, and I want what is best for my husband.”
During the interview Cher spoke about her sons history of drug addiction sharing, “I’m not suffering from any problem that millions of people in the United States aren’t,” Cher said. “I’m a mother. This is my job — one way or another, to try to help my children. You do anything for your children. Whenever you can help them, you just do it because that’s what being a mother is. But it’s joy, even with heartache — mostly, when you think of your children, you just smile and you love them, and you try to be there for them.”
As we previously reported, after the New York incident last November, Allman spent six months living at the Chateau Marmont, where hotel staff would regularly contact Cher over her son’s “apparent drugged-out appearance.”
Sources said, “Virtually every morning and afternoon Elijah could be seen in front of the hotel on the sidewalk either leaning against the wall or sitting on the sidewalk smoking. He would come out with a full cigarette and by the time he had finished it, he would be passed out. It always looked like it was dipped in something. He looked strung-out and messy like he was a homeless person living on the streets.”