she claimed to have been visited by Jesus – who appeared in her curtains. Believe also revealed that she was “obsessed” with thinking she was an angel when she was a child.
“I thought I saw the face of Christ in the folds of my bedroom curtains. One morning, half asleep, I looked up to see Jesus looking down at me again, and then He was gone.
“I should have said something, but I didn’t, and so I lost my chance to be Saint Ser.” Cher – real name Cheryl Sarkisian – said she imagined she was a messenger from the Lord.
He continued: I had concluded that I was an angel of God and my mission was to cure polio, an infectious disease that caused paralysis and could kill children, who were the worst affected.
“I was so obsessed with the idea that I was an angel sent to cure disease that when Jonas Salk invented a vaccine, I was so pissed off.”
In her new book Cher – who once had a duet with her ex-husband Sonny Bono – admitted she was a “quirky” child who made up invisible friends.
He added: “I thought of ‘Sam and Pete’, two lumberjacks/truck drivers with bushy faces, jeans, plaid Pendleton shirts and hats with flaps on the ears, although they didn’t always wear their hats.
“They lived under the lemon tree in the backyard of their house [παππούδων] Mamaw and Pa and they overshadowed me with their presence.
They were 100 percent real in my mind. I was just a kid, so that’s probably why I had this crazy idea,” he added.
