Cher explains reason she lost her virginity aged 14

Cher has explained the reason why she ‘decided’ to lose her virginity at the age of 14.

The first volume of the music legend’s memoir released yesterday (19 November), covering her early life from childhood to her rise to fame and to her relationship with Sonny Bono.

Now 78-years-old, the ‘Believe’ singer discussed how when she first had sex, it was ‘revenge sex’.

Cher explained she became involved with a ‘cute’ Italian high schooler back in the early 60s and while she never wanted to have sex with him, she ended up choosing to ‘loan her virginity’ after he embarrassed her.

Cher wanted him to feel as dismissed as she did (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

“An Italian family on our street had a cute son who was a senior in high school. He spent his weekends working on his hot rod as I handed him tools. Then he’d come to my room, we’d kiss, he’d want me to hold his other tool, and I’d say no,” she writes.

“I liked his black roadster better than him. Not that sex was far from my mind then, as the main conversations among girls at school were about how they spent their weekends fooling around with boys but never went to ‘fourth base’.”

Cher explained how she thought these ‘euphemisms’ were ‘childish’ and couldn’t grasp the connection between baseball and sex, adding: “I mean who did they think they were, Joe DiMaggio?”

The ‘Turn Back Time' singer said her Italian neighbour was ‘sweet enough’ when it was just the two of them, but would treat her like ‘an embarrassing kid’ in front of his mates.

Cher has been in the public eye since she was a teen in the 60s (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

“One day, when his buddies suggested a trip to Bob’s Big Boy, he said, ‘Okay, let me get Cher.’ They laughed and said, ‘You’re gonna take that kid?’ and he ditched me. I was so hurt when he did that, I had revenge sex with him,” she writes.

“I had never wanted to, otherwise I would have done it one of the five hundred other times he asked. But I was so angry at being dismissed, I decided to, if not lose, loan out my virginity to him.”

After the ‘massively overrated experience’ was over, Cher dismissed the teen and asked him: “Is that it? Are we finished?”

She then told him to ‘go home and never come back’, hoping to make him feel as dismissed as she had.

“Back in school, I reported to my friends that the ‘thing’ they were constantly talking about was no big deal and that they should carry on kissing,” she said.