Pop queen Cher has claimed she was visited by Jesus – who appeared in her curtains. The Believe singer also revealed she was “obsessed” by the thought that she herself was an angel as child.
Cher, 78, said: “I thought I saw Christ’s face in the folds of my organdie bedroom curtains. Half-asleep one morning, I looked up to see Jesus looking back down at me, and then he was gone.
“I should have said something, but I didn’t, so I missed my chance to become Saint Cher.” Cher – real name Cheryl Sarkisian – said she imagined she was a messenger of the Lord growing up and previously revealed she saw John Lennon strip naked in the Playboy Mansion.
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She continued: “I decided I was an angel sent from God whose mission was to cure polio, an infectious disease that caused paralysis and could kill children, who were the worst affected.
“News bulletins showed kids locked into breathing machines known as ‘iron lungs’ or bent out of shape and walking stiffly in ugly leather and metal leg braces.
“I was so obsessed with the idea that I was an angel sent to cure the disease that when Jonas Salk invented a vaccine, I was so p***ed off.”
In her new book Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the Goddess of Pop – who was once in a duo with late ex-husband Sonny Bono – admitted she was a “peculiar” kid who invented invisible friends.
She added: “I came up with ‘Sam and Pete,’ two stubble-faced lumberjacks/ truck drivers in jeans, plaid Pendleton shirts, and hats with flaps over their ears, though they didn’t always wear their hats.
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“They lived under the lemon tree in the backyard of [grandparents] Mamaw and Pa’s house and dwarfed me with their presence.
“They were 100 percent real in my mind. I was just a kid, so where did I get that crazy idea?
“Once I had those two giants in my life, I was happy as a clam talking to them about everything from why men drank to our dream places to live. We never ran out of conversation. “In my head, they lived with Mamaw and Pa, who never questioned my need for fantasy friends.
“With Sam and Pete by my side, I was no longer quite so lonely.”
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