The Memoir, Part One,' out Nov. 19, Cher writes that her then-husband, Sonny Bono, “manhandled” her during an escalation early in their relationship.

Ball had already been through her divorce with Desi Arnaz, and like Sonny and Cher, shared a TV show with her ex-husband.

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.

Cher is getting extremely candid about her marriage to Sonny Bono in her new book Cher: The Memoir, Part 1. While the couple captured hearts with their musical duets and love songs as Sonny & Cher, behind the curtain was another story—the "Believe" singer was so unhappy and "trapped" in her "loveless marriage" that she often thought of removing herself from his life in drastic ways.

Cher turned to a funny source when her marriage to Sonny Bono went south. The "Believe" singer, 78, revealed that she turned to comedienne Lucille Ball for relationship advice in her new book, Cher: The Memoir,

Cher wasn’t kidding when she sang “Love Hurts.” The singer soared to stardom in the ’60s alongside Sonny Bono as the pop duo Sonny & Cher, but their split was as bitter as they come, with Cher claiming Bono took all her money.

The Memoir, Part One," Cher writes about the advice Lucille Ball gave her when her marriage to Sonny Bono was on the rocks.