Cher is a legend, no doubt.
And over the years, her personal life became a separate story.
Now, this may come as a shock to you, but back in the 80s, the iconic star dated none
other than Tom Cruise.
Yes, we’ll give you a second.
In today’s video, we’ll tell you all about this unbelievable romance, including how Tom
was a COMPLETELY different person.
Well, he must’ve been.
How else would he get on Cher’s top 5 lovers list?
Tom Cruise and Cher are two of Hollywood’s most iconic stars.
Back in the mid-to-late 1980s, Tom Cruise was making a name for himself as one of Hollywood’s
leading men, with roles in films like Top Gun, Legend and Risky Business.
Meanwhile, Cher had already been a massive star for two decades.
She first found fame as part of the pop duo Sonny & Cher with her ex-husband Sonny Bono
and then became a successful solo artist, TV presenter and actor.
In the summer of 1985, Cher was just a few years away from winning an Academy Award for
Moonstruck.
During this period, the two first crossed paths at a star-studded event.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the future couple met at the wedding of another singer-actor
coupling, Madonna and Sean Penn.
Although Cher and Cruise didn’t immediately start dating upon their first meeting, they
too enjoyed a brief love affair.
The next time they met, it was an inherently more personal circumstance.
The future couple crossed paths due to a common disability.
As Cher told The Daily Mail, she and Cruise were invited to the White House in late 1985.
What was the occasion?
Both stars were recipients of the Outstanding Learning Disabled Achiever Award.
As it turns out, both Cher and Cruise have dyslexia.
And though they didn’t begin dating until later, Cher admitted a “connection” between
them at the White House event.
“A bunch of people who were dyslexic were invited to the White House, and Tom and I
are both dyslexic,” Cher explained decades later.
“We didn’t go out till way later, but there definitely was a connection there,”
she continued.
Cruise and Cher might seem like the unlikeliest celebrity couple.
But it makes sense that part of their story together involved their personal experience
with dyslexia.
After all, they are far from the only celebrities who have openly discussed their experiences
with dyslexia.
But their shared recognition for overcoming it makes for a powerful ice-breaker.
Cher first revealed she had dated Cruise during a May 2008 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The megastar told Oprah that she and Cruise shared more than a one-night stand, revealing
they had a “long date,” adding, “I lived in his apartment.”
She talked of him fondly, the way you might remember your sweet high-school boyfriend.
She even said he was a little traumatized by the bullying he faced as a student.
But, overall, it seems that there was an innocence to Cher’s rendezvous with Cruise that endeared
him to her forever.
Truth be told, it’s a little hard to imagine the man Cher dated.
Where 1980s Tom Cruise was said he’d been bullied, 2022’s Tom Cruise is the most important
member of a church that allegedly ranks people according to class, treats them accordingly,
and forces those who misbehave to do literal dirty work as punishment.
If you’ve seen a Tom Cruise interview, there’s a certain fanaticism to him.
It seems like it would make it hard to be in a serious one-on-one relationship with
the guy if you held any opinions counter to his.
And Cher’s known for speaking her mind.
However, Cher did make a point of telling Oprah that she only knew Tom “in a certain
way,” which could mean that she knew Cruise before he was a couch-jumping Scientology
devotee.
Or that they had a true bond and made sweet, sweet love together.
Anyway, we’re glad Cruise was a good boyfriend to Cher for a hot minute.
Long after they broke up, Cher gushed over Tom, saying, “I was so crazy about him.
He was so wonderful ... And he was so, like, different.
He was a shy boy.
He didn’t have any money.”
She later added that they might have enjoyed a “great big romance” had their busy schedules
not kept them apart.
During a 2013 appearance on Watch What Happens Live, while playing a totally not invented
game called “Truth or Cher,” Cohen asked her where Cruise fell on her list of best
lovers.
She responded with: “he was in the top five.”
Cohen seemed shocked because “that’s a list!” and because of Tom Cruise.
Cher’s a straight shooter, a teller of truths.
Anyone who’s had the privilege of reading her Twitter feed can confirm this.
So, assuming that Cher would never lie to us, we must accept this as truth, too.
“It was pretty hot and heavy for a little minute,” she told Andy in an additional
feature from the episode.
“The person that I knew was a great, lovable guy.”
Fans of both Cruise and Cher might be shocked to learn that they were romantically involved
at all.
Considering how famous the two stars are now, it’s wild that their relationship never
really came to light until the late 2000s.
But, of course, it was easier to keep celebrity romances on the DL without social media and
camera phones.
Considering the media spectacle that was Cruise and Katie Holmes’s whirlwind romance, Cher
herself seemed a bit confused by how differently the Top Gun star approached their own relationship.
In 2008, she told Entertainment Tonight that it was a long time ago, and neither one of
them ever talked about it, and she doesn’t know why.
When they were together, he was such a private person.
He didn’t mention it, and she didn’t say it.
“I loved him though, he was amazing.
Now it’s hard for me to look at this person and this press.
How many times can I watch him jumping up and down on Oprah’s couch?”
By the sounds of it, the stars’ relationship appears to have been much more serious than
the rumor mill had initially been let on, according to Cher herself.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the singer revealed she and Cruise even lived together
for a brief period.
That being said, they couldn’t have been together for more than a few months.
It turns out their breakup happened because of scheduling.
Cher told ET that they split simply due to not being able to spend time together.
“It was after Risky Business and right before The Color of Money.
I couldn’t go to Chicago, and that was kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back,”
she explained.
The Color of Money began shooting in Chicago in January 1986 — Cruise and Cher’s White
House rendezvous had happened in October 1985.
Things ended amicably between the two, and they even shared a sweet on-camera reunion
at the “Love Rocks” concert on Valentine’s Day in 2002.
Had they remained together, it seems there would’ve been more than busy shooting schedules
standing between them.
“I don’t get what he does, that whole Scientology thing,” she said once in an
interview.
And when the star shared the news about her future autobiography in 2018, reportedly,
Tom wasn’t stoked.
She revealed on Twitter that she was working on her new memoir, saying, “Writing Life
Story Book Due Out First Part Of 2020 Bio Pic To Follow.”
Might we say, at 75, she’s a prolific tweeter, with even her most mundane updates, such as
“have to take a shower”, garnering 17,000 likes.
Apparently, when Tom Cruise heard that Cher would be writing a tell-all book, he became
a little worried.
Believe it or not, this shy boy didn’t feel good about the whole reveal.
A source on the set of Tom’s Top Gun 2 told Daily Mirror that the actor wasn’t exactly
jumping on the couch over Cher’s new memoir.
“Everyone knew he wasn’t happy,” the source said, adding, “It seemed like a bit
of a touchy subject.”
While Tom Cruise may not be thrilled about the yet to be released Cher’s memoir, we
are waiting with anticipation for all the secrets that the star may end up spilling!
Shortly after splitting from Cher, Cruise wed actor Mimi Rogers.
Their marriage was brief, and he married second wife Nicole Kidman in 1990, the same year
his divorce was finalized.
Kidman and Cruise, who share two adult children, split early in the new millennium.
He and Katie Holmes welcomed their daughter in 2006 and wed eight months later.
They announced their divorce in the summer of 2012.
Laura Prepon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5t3OFNNZeU&ab_channel=TheDrewBarrymoreShow 8.57) was rumored to be dating Cruise in 2014,
but she swiftly shut down the speculation and wed another man four years later.
In 2021, she also revealed that she was no longer practicing Scientology.
So, yeah, not a suitable match, we presume.
While working together on Mission: Impossible 7, Hayley Atwell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zuFsqtGpmY&ab_channel=WIRED
0.00) and Tom were rumored to be a thing, but never addressed the claims.
Following her breakup with Cruise, Cher dated aspiring actor Rob Camilletti (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bcw4GJjiSg&ab_channel=OWN
4.02), Richie Sambora (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAEefrsjDE0&t=20s&ab_channel=People 0.23), producer and writer Ron Zimmerman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PiyWO_ngGk&ab_channel=stweekly
1.42), and Tim Medvetz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIItd7f4iE&ab_channel=NickiSwift 9.53).
These days, Cher is single and admits that she finds it hard to date.
“The problem I have with all the boyfriends lately is that I don’t want to go any place
with them because you can’t keep a relationship going in this kind of goldfish bowl, where
everything you do and every picture you have taken will be on Instagram.
There’s no way to keep something special.”
“I’m still on the lookout,” she teases.
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