Cher And Gregg Allman: Inside Their Whirlwind '70s Marriage

Unfortunately, while there was a physical attraction between them, the singing superstars didn't have much to talk about, so they headed to pal Judy Carne's house, where Allman nodded off after doing heroin with the Laugh-In star.

Allman wrote that he called Cher the next day to apologize for "the worst f***ing date in the history of mankind," and he asked for a second chance. Cher agreed and wore a $1,000 Bob Mackie dress for their second outing.

"We went dancing," the rocker wrote.

"I don't know how to dance, but I got drunk enough to where I did…This is when disco was just taking off, so we did some dirty dancing. She had one drink, while I had my 21, of course. When we got back to her place, she took me out to her rose garden, and all the roses were just starting to bloom…We made some serious love!"

Cher's son Chaz Bono (who was then Chastity Bono), once told radio host Howard Stern that it wasn't easy living with a rock-star drug addict.

"He picked me up from school once and got lost on the way home," Chaz said in a 2008 interview with Stern.

The arrival of son Elijah Blue in 1976 offered a temporary moment of family bliss for the couple. Cher and her now-sober man posed for a People cover story to introduce the world to their bundle of joy.

"Gregory has stopped drinking and has stopped doing any kind of drugs," Cher said at the time.

"I've always loved Gregory, but until now I never felt it was going to last. For the first time, I feel like married people."

"A lot of it had to do with my work," Cher explained. "Gregory would say, 'You're a great big star, but you're not that much fun to be around, because you're not around.' If he had come from Mars, our backgrounds couldn't have been more different."

Allman predicted he and Cher were on "a good plateau."

Decades later, Cher told AARP that she remained on good terms with her ex, despite their earlier struggles.

"Being Mr. Cher" is hard on a man's ego, Cher said.

In 2011, Allman told CBS News it was hard being in such a high-profile relationship.

"I remember going to the grocery store and just seeing my face everywhere," he recalled. "And I'm like, 'What is happening, you know?' [Cher] said, 'I told you this would happen!' Yeah, she warned me."

But the rocker said he always had a friend in Cher.

"Yeah. I mean, we have a kid together and, you know, she's just, she's good people anyway," he said.

Gregg Allman died on May 27, 2017 at age 69 at his home in Savannah, Georgia. The rock legend had battled health issues for several years. Cher posted about the loss of the man she will always love on social media.