Cher and Elijah Blue Allman.Photo:Bei/Shutterstock
Bei/Shutterstock
The divorce case proceedings betweenCher’s sonElijah Blue Allmanand his estranged wifeMarie Kingrecently surfaced accusations that the superstar, 77,hired four men to kidnap her adult son, 47, from his hotel room in November 2022.
PEOPLE reached out to Cher’s representatives for comment.
As stated in the documents, Allman began “receiving medical care” in August 2022. King, whose stage name is Queenie, requested a continuance that their divorce trial be scheduled after March 1, 2023, as that was when Allman was supposed to “have finished his treatment plan.”
Elijah Blue Allman and Cher.Vince Bucci/Newsmakers/Getty
Vince Bucci/Newsmakers/Getty
It is unclear when exactly the musician’s treatment was scheduled for, but according to the documents, he “spent 12 days alone” in a New York hotel with King — who he filed for divorce from after eight years of marriage in 2021 — in 2022 from November 18 to November 30. During that time, King claimed they were “working on [their] marriage” and believed that they could “reconcile.”
The KING band member alleges that on November 30, 2022 four people removed Allman from their hotel room, claiming one of the men told her that it was her mother-in-law who hired them.
At the time the documents were filed on December 5, 2022, King stated that her ex-husband was “currently in lockdown at a treatment facility that is undisclosed to me” and said he had “no access to his phone.”
Cher.Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty
Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty
In the declaration to reschedule their next court date, she said, “I understand his family’s efforts to make sure he is well, and I want what is best for my husband.”
Allman — who Cher welcomed with her ex-husband, the lateGregg Allmanof The Allman Brothers in 1976 — has opened up in the past about his drug use. In a 2014 interview withEntertainment Tonight, hereportedly said, “I started with drugs (weed and ecstasy) around the same time that we all did, around 11.”
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The musician, whose relationship with his father was largely estranged until several years before hisdeathin 2017, explained that opiates “kind of saved [him]” for a period. He said, “If I didn’t have that at that point, I don’t know what I would have done … You may jump off a bridge. If you can only just go through that time period and live through it and then get help."
He added, “I don’t think it’s anything she doesn’t know or hasn’t acknowledged. I know it’s a real regret, a real thing that for sure haunts her. I definitely know that the intent has been genuine. It’ll be mended because it has to be, it will just take time.”
Cherrecently announcedher first-ever Christmas album,Cher Christmas, which is due out Oct. 20 via Warner Records.
source: people.com
