{"id":420428,"date":"2011-05-10T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/10\/cher-cher-kept-her-distance-from-new-son-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T01:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T01:36:00","slug":"cher-cher-kept-her-distance-from-new-son-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/10\/cher-cher-kept-her-distance-from-new-son-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CHER – CHER KEPT HER DISTANCE FROM ‘NEW SON’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cher spent months avoiding her transgender son Chaz Bono as he went through the process to become a man – because she was terrified she wouldn’t recognise him as her child.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bono was born Chastity – Cher and ex-husband Sonny Bono’s only daughter – and she broke her mother’s heart when she came out as a lesbian. Chaz feared more heartbreak was to come when he revealed his plans to undergo a lengthy and extensive sex change procedure, but Cher took the news well.<\/span><\/p>\n

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However, once the process started, the pop superstar kept her distance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In new documentary Becoming Chaz, which debuted on Oprah Winfrey’s new Own network on Monday (09May11), Cher says, “I was so nervous. I hadn’t seen her… and I was putting it off.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“My boyfriend finally said, ‘This is crazy, just do it.’ I said, ‘I’m so terrified of what will happen. If I don’t recognise her, what will happen?”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cher admits there are many changes she’s slowly having to come to terms with: “At some point, I’m gonna have to start calling her ‘him’… It doesn’t seem comfortable to me yet. Actually I just can’t remember… and I guess I’ll start forcing myself… (but) I’m not sure she cares.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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And she reveals she asked her transgender son if she could have a copy of his old voicemail message – because it was her daughter speaking.<\/span><\/p>\n

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She adds, “I was hysterical one day because I was calling Chaz’s answering machine and I realised it was her old voice, and then I said, ‘Chaz is there a way I can save it because I will never hear that voice again?’ And there wasn’t, it was gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“That’s the most traumatic thing that has happened to me in this whole thing – hearing her voice and knowing I’ll never hear it again.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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