Cher has opened up about her whirlwind romance with boyfriend Alexander ‘AE’ Edwards, admitting she went against her own rules for the music producer.
The Believe singer, 77, raised eyebrows when she debuted her romance with the 37-year-old last year, .
They briefly met at a Fashion Week event last September, after which a mutual friend gave out her number – and .
‘It was really shocking, because people just don’t give out my number,’ she said of the beginning of their romance, admitting she was ‘not surprised’ by all the headlines. ‘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!
‘I hate when people say people are special, but lots of people say I’m special, so I can say that he’s special.
‘No matter what happens, I love being with him. He makes me laugh, and we have fun. What I learned is that it’s never too late. If you wrote out all the statistics, you would go, “Well, this is doomed.” But we’ve been together a year, and if it was just a year, it would’ve been worth it. I’ve had the best time.’
‘If you have happiness, you can’t think about how long it’s going to last,’ she added to . ‘You have to think about “How does it feel?” and live in the moment.’
Cher and Alexander were recently pictured making the rounds at Paris Fashion Week last month, marking a year of their relationship with a walk down memory lane.
, they were first pictured together two months later – with the If I Could Turn Back Time icon introducing her beau to her sons, Chaz and Elijah.
Things also stepped up a notch when she met his child, Slash Electric, who Alexander shares with former girlfriend Amber Rose.
‘Cher knows full well that there’s a lot of skepticism about this romance but she couldn’t care less,’ an insider told Us Weekly at the time.
‘She’s reveling in the attention and saying that she and AE have something very special going on that’s made her feel more alive and sexier than ever.
‘She’s always been drawn to younger guys, and this is by no means the first fun, no strings attached fling she’s had in recent years.
‘The difference here is that this one feels special, which is why she felt confident to go public as a couple’.
It was thought that the lovebirds had gone their separate ways in May of this year, around the time of Cher’s birthday celebrations.
However, they proved those rumors wrong after they were seem beaming together in the city of love.
