Cher shares terrifying encounter with gun weilding Phil Spector

Cher reflected on Phil Spector’s dark side in her recently released memoir titled Cher: The Memoir.

In her book, Cher revealed that years before music producer Phil Spector shot and killed Lana Clarkson at his home in 2003, he had pulled a gun on her.

This happened when the Dark Lady hitmaker confronted him for releasing music she recorded without his permission.

She wrote, “He knew he couldn't pull that shit with me.”

“I think he was 21 or 22, and I was close to him in the strangest kind of way because I didn't take shit from him. I just didn't.” Cher shared.

“I met him with his best friend [Tempo], and the first thing he said to me [in French] was, 'Would you go to bed with me?’” she added, referring to her then-boyfriend Nino Tempo, a musician and singer who collaborated with Spector at Gold Star Studios.

The Believe singer said Spector did not think she would understand his rude suggestion, but she replied that too in French, saying “Yes, for money,” and added, “And from then on, we had this really strange relationship."

Notably, their lives crossed again soon after when Cher started dating Bono that same year.

Bono worked on Spector’s production team and would bring her to the studio with him.

Cher, who never accepted Spector’s indecent behaviour, stated, “Sonny used to get so upset because he’d say, ‘Please, please, don't do this. He's my boss,’ but it didn't stop me.”

For the unversed, Spector gave Cher her first music opportunity in 1963 when singer Darlene Love missed a session.

The Fernando crooner filled in as a backup singer, and despite almost fainting, she became a regular singer and later received a Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar.

Moreover, in February 2003, model and actress Lana Clarkson was shot and killed at Spector’s home.

She met Spector at a nightclub and went to his house for a drink.

An hour later, his limousine driver heard a gunshot and saw Spector holding a gun.

It is pertinent to mention that after Clarson's death, Spector claimed it was accidental suicide, but he was charged with second-degree murder, was tried twice with a hung jury in 2007, and found guilty in 2009.