Though Cher and Sonny Bono’s marriage lasted less than a decade, their musical hits endured. Yet Cher details in her new memoir that the success of her creative partnership with her late husband wasn’t equally shared.

The Memoir, Part 1,' the entertainment legend looks back on her breaking point with husband Sonny Bono, revealing that after considering leaping from a hotel balcony in Las Vegas, she decided, "I can just leave him.

Cher—who was married to Bono from 1964 to 1975—clarified that she didn't literally mean sleeping with Bill, but rather that Sonny had ignored her repeated requests to be let go. "The silence was deafening,