Cher says goodbye to Val Kilmer, the only man who has ever left her: “We will miss you, Valus”

Continues the wave of affection of fans and colleagues for Val Kilmer, Died on April 1st to 65 years of the complications of a pneumonia. Among the many messages arrived in the last few hours, that of Cher, with which the actor had a story in the eighties.

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“We will miss you,” wrote the singer and actress, calling Kilmer “Valus”, one of the best known nicknames he had given him, and remembering the funny, crazy and “pain” spirit, as well as the advantage of being a great friend and good with children, as well as “courageous” during his illness.

An affectionate post, which comes a few months after a small revelation made by Cher: Val Kilmer was the only man to leave her. The admission had arrived during a chat with the conductor Howard Stern: “I was madly in love and he left.” Cher then had taken it with philosophy, certain that he was destined to be with certain people just for a period of life and that when they separated his time with Kilmer was now over.

Val Kilmer and Cher at the Oscar 1984.

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Today few perhaps will remember their story, but at the time he made a lot of talk especially because of the age difference between the two, 14 years old. Cher and Val Kilmer attended from 1982 to 1984, after meeting at a birthday party that Meryl Streep had organized for the singer. A story made of “Incredible moments”, she said to People in 2021, but also of difficulties because both were two “Alfa males” And they would never give up this peculiarity. The end of the story, however, did not mean definitively away: “I don’t know how friends remained, we just did it. We didn’t try. We were just it ».

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Val Kilmer also had the opportunity to talk about Cher, in his autobiography I’m your huckleberry: a memoir, Exit in 2020. At the beginning he was not interested in meeting her, because he thought they had nothing in common, then things changed. “I ended up accompanying her home on the back of my Harley on the streets of Manhattan,” he wrote, “she liked Harley. We liked to laugh both and we continued to do it for more than a year ». And again: “She is the funniest woman I’ve ever met.”
Their roads then separated, but the affection has always remained to tie them.


Source: Vanity Fair

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