Cher didn’t let a 40-year age gap scare her away from Alexander “A.E.” Edwards the first time around. And it certainly won’t have any bearing on round two.
The 77-year-old icon and the 37-year-old music producer went public with their relationship in November 2022 and were openly hot and heavy for a while. “He’s 36 & in [the] end he came after me, till we met in the middle,” she tweeted at the time. “He’s [the] consistent one, I’m the skittish one. We love each other… Ladies never give up.”
Prior to meeting Edwards, Cher had been married twice and raised two children: Chaz Bono, 53, and Elijah Blue Allman, 46. In 2021, Edwards admitted to cheating on his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose, with whom he shares a three-year-old son, with at least 12 other women. “I thought, ‘Shit, I got caught.’ I got caught before, you know what I’m saying? And she’s just had enough, obviously,” he said on Instagram Live after being publically called out by Rose, per People. “I love her, though. That’s, like, my best friend, the mother of my son. I love [Sebastian], my stepson too. But…I like women.”
And it seems he sure loves Cher. On Christmas Day 2022, Cher debuted a large diamond ring that kicked off serious engagement rumors, which she never confirmed…or denied. But in May 2023 the couple was reported to have split. However, as of October 2023, it appeared the pair survived their first year as a couple.
Here’s a complete timeline of Cher and Alexander Edwards’s relationship, and where they stand now.
October 2022: Cher and Edwards meet at Paris Fashion Week.
In October 2023, Cher revealed to People that a mutual friend had given Edwards her number after they spoke “for about 15 minutes.”
“It was really shocking because people just don’t give out my number,” Cher says. “I had been telling all my friends, ‘We’re too old to go out with really younger men, and I will never fall in love on text.’ So I did what I said not to do!”
Cher told People that she broke her dating rules for Edwards “because he’s just so special.”
Cher attends the Ann Demeulemeester womenswear spring-summer 2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2022.
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