Cher’s affair with Tom Cruise

Speaking on Oprah, the veteran star confessed, “I was crazy about him.” And she said that Tom was a shy lad of just 23 and she was 39 when the fling began.

The couple are thought to have met at a White House fund-raising event, just after his film Risky Business proved a hit. “It could have been a great big romance because I was crazy for him,” the 61-year-old told hostess Oprah Winfrey.

And the audience whooped and cheered as she told of one “long night” they spent together.

“He was shy,” she said. “He said he felt like such a boob in school and nobody talked to him. We went on a date once for dinner in a New York restaurant and the waitress was from his old school. He told me she never talked to him back in school, but now he was recognised he got all her attention.”

It is thought that the affair ended when the Top Gun star met Mimi Rogers, who became his first wife in 1987.

17 candacespicysco Published 4/29/08   Message Add to Friends