In her new self-titled memoir, Cher alludes to making a decision about her first pregnancy with Allman.

Cher was pregnant at the time, which was a large part of what prompted the hasty marriage.

I have to take them out.'

Cher and Gregg Allman in Washington, DC for Jimmy Carter’s Inaugaration - January 21, 1977

Cher and Gregg Allman.Ron Galella/WireImage

I pretty much knew what he meant when he offered it as a choice."

“I needed to be singing and dancing,” she writes.

“I had a child, mother and sister to take care of.

I knew I had to make a choice, and I knew what it was.

Cher did go on to have a child with Allman the following year, Elijah Blue.

However, she discusses that pregnancy as an entirely separate event.

Cher has two children, Chaz Bono and Elijah Allman.Cher: The Memoiris now on shelves.