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Cher is a rare exception when it comes to telling the truth.
In her new memoir Cher: The Memoir, Part One, which was released on November 19, the singer, born Cherilyn Sarkisian, commented on her "shocked" response when she discovered her initial name was entered as Cheryl on her birth certificate.
"I believed Cherilyn was my name until the day years later when I decided to legally change my name to simply Cher," she said, describing how the confusion happened.
She also discussed her birth and her mother's protracted unmedicated childbirth in 1946.
"She was exhausted by the time I arrived at around 7:30 a.m. on Monday, May 20," the music great wrote.
While her mother was healing, a nurse came into her room and inquired what she wanted to name her child. "My mother had no idea, but the woman insisted, so she answered, 'Well, Lana Turner's my favorite actress, and her daughter's name is Cheryl. My mother's name is Lynda, so what about Cherilyn?" the Believe singer said in her memoir.
Later, when the singer, 78, discovered the birth certificate error, she questioned her mother, "Do you even know my real name, Mom?" She claimed that her mother pulled the document from her hands, glanced at it, and merely shrugged.
She told her famous daughter, "I was just a teenager, and I was in a lot of agony. Give me a break.
However, in 1979, the Grammy Award winner legally changed her name to Cher.
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