Cher may "believe" in life after love, but it turns out that one of the things she couldn't wrap her head around was the fact that she didn't know her real name for decades.1

In her new book, Cher: Memoirs, what is her actual name when the pop icon applied to legally change "simply to Cher" in 1979

The "strong enough" singer, 78, said her mother, Georgia Holt, was her own mom when she was born in 1946. He explained that he decided to combine celebrity Monica with his famous name. When the nurse asked Holt what to call the baby, the 10・year-old mom replied, "Lana Turner is my favorite actress and her little girl is Sher My mother's name is Linda, so what about Cherilyn?

Cher — who also shared a hilarious royal bite in her memoirs — kept thinking her name was Sherin (and why wouldn't she?Until she went about changing her name. "When I applied for a birth certificate, I was shocked that I was officially registered as Cheryl," the singer wrote.

Cher confronted his mother and asked, "Do you even know my real name, Mom?"But "I got your baby," according to the singer, Holt's reply was casual.

After "snatching documents," Cher's mom "shrugged" and said, "I was only 10 years old and I was feeling a lot of pain. give me a break..

Along with the revelation of her shocking name, the pop star shared many other bombs in her memoirs. "I was lonely and dizzy," she wrote. "I saw how easy it was to get over the edge and simply disappear," he says.

Cher also shared that she asked Lucille Ball for advice when it came to her marital problems — and I love Lucy's star "She told me, 'F*ck him, you're someone who has talent,' the pop star wrote.