Cher has claimed John Lennon once stripped off his clothes during a drunken night at the Playboy Mansion in 1974.
In her new autobiography, Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the Believe hitmaker recalled having dinner at a restaurant in Los Angeles with the Beatle and his friend, singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, and asking the pair if they wanted to visit Hugh Hefner’s famed mansion for its Sunday movie night.
According to Cher, Lennon was “dying” to see the property so she drove them to the mansion, at which point she realised her companions were “drunker than I’d thought”.
The 78-year-old, a regular guest at the Playboy Mansion, led Lennon and Nilsson to the swimming pool’s Grotto – where they stripped naked.
“Giggling and falling over each other, John and Harry followed me out into the grounds. Sitting them down inside the infamous Grotto – it was like a huge cave that one end of the swimming pool went into – I went to find a drink and when I came back they were standing in the middle of the Grotto naked but still in the water, thank God,” she wrote in the book, which has been serialised by the Daily Mail.
When the pop legend told the pair they were not a “pretty” sight, they threatened to leave the water.
“I was trying not to laugh, but it was impossible not to as they threatened to wander around the mansion naked. It took me ages to get them back in their clothes. It was like herding drunks,” Cher continued.
She noted that while the mansion was “notorious for drunken orgies”, the Sunday movie nights were more relaxed events featuring cocktails, dinner and the latest films.
Cher: The Memoir, Part One will be released on 19 November.
