The Memoir, Part One,' the music icon reveals she considered jumping off a balcony during her 'loveless' marriage to Sonny Bono. The 78-year-old shares how 'deeply unhappy' she was and how loneliness nearly cost her life,

Cher released the first installment of a planned two-part memoir Tuesday, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” spanning roughly the first half of the 78-year-old entertainer’s life, with anecdotes about a marriage to Sonny Bono she called “ loveless ” that led her to consider suicide at the height of their television fame in the 1970s.