Cher and Jimmy Kimmel are tense after a “stupid” question

Cher shared an intense and awkward moment in an interview with the late night host Jimmy Kimmel after she took offense to a question she thought was “stupid.”

The icy exchange began when Kimmel asked her if she had finished the second part of her book, to which she said no.

Jimmy Kimmel then continued to mock Cher, expressing doubts that she would be ready before the November release date after she admitted that she had “not even started yet.”

Cher made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show on Tuesday night, where she was asked some quick questions about her life.

However, according to the Daily MailThe Heart of Stone seemed put off by some of Kimmel’s questions, which led to an awkward moment on set.

While promoting her book “Cher: The Memoir,” the first part of which was released in November 2024, Kimmel asked the singer in a conversation whether she had started the second part before the November 2025 release date.

“The second part of your book, have you finished it yet?” Kimmel asked, which seemed to excite the singer.

Cher initially responded with a laugh before admitting that she “haven’t even started yet.”

Kimmel appeared shocked and asked if it was “true” that she didn’t start, prompting Cher to stare at him coldly.

The typically affable Kimmel then expressed doubt that she would finish it before November if she hadn’t “started it in the first place.”

While Cher maintained a cool silence during the interview, Kimmel said of her memoir, “So it’s not coming out in November.”

“Yes, it is,” Cher replied, insisting it would be out in November, to which Kimmel teased, “We’ll see.”

The conversation turned into a back-and-forth between the two before Kimmel jokingly offered to help with the memoir, which Cher politely declined.

As the show continued, Kimmel began asking another question, but the music legend apparently had enough and shut him down before he could finish his statement.

Toward the end of the interview, Kimmel asked the music legend another question, saying, “If you could turn back time (a reference to Cher’s hit single ‘If I Could Turn Back Time)’,” but before he could finish, the singer interjected .

“This is so stupid,” Cher said as she tried to respond.

Elsewhere in her conversation with Kimmel, Cher, née Cheryl Sarkisian, went further into her relationship with Sonny Bono and revealed the reason why they stayed together for a long time.

From 1964 to 1975, she had a turbulent marriage to Bono and starred with him in “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.”

According to the Daily MailThe singer told Kimmel that her time on the show kept her marriage going for a long time.

“I have to tell you something. The show kept us together because we had so much fun on the show. “We were equals, you know?” Cher began.

“That was – I mean, I loved it – I loved it. We loved it. We worked so well together. “We had so much fun and it really kept us together longer than I wanted,” Cher added.

During the interview, Cher credited a mystery man with helping her leave Bono. Although she mentioned him in her book, she didn’t mention him by name on television because she thought about how he must have felt.

“There are people I mentioned there and I wonder what they think. “For example, a very special guy who…he was very helpful in helping me leave Sonny,” Cher said.

“I wonder, I mentioned his whole name so I wonder how he feels about that? But he must feel good because he was a really good person,” she added.

The actress then mentioned that she thought this particular person was in Texas right now, but decided against letting Kimmel find him and get on the phone.

The Kimmel interview comes after Cher revealed the identity of the music producer who pressured her into sex when she was 15 and later pulled a gun on her.

In her book, she detailed the “strange” encounter she had in the early 1960s with the late Phil Spector, whom she had met through her then-boyfriend Antonino LoTempio.

“To many he may have been a demigod, but he acted strangely and I didn’t like the way he stared at me,” she wrote of the music producer in her memoir, before recounting the shocking moment he asked her to be with him to sleep.

“‘Voulez-vous coucher avec me?’ he said with a grin and asked me to sleep with him,” Cher wrote. She then wrote her reply and told him that she would have sex with him for money.

“Without breaking a sweat, I took a look back and replied, ‘Oui, pour l’argent,'” she shared.

Cher added in her book: “You could have knocked him over with a feather. He didn’t think I would understand the question, let alone have an answer.”