The pop icon wrote in her new memoir that she struggled mentally after her marriage to Sonny Bono became "loveless."

I figured I’d plead insanity … Then I’d get a book deal and my own show,” Cher alleges Sonny told her after admitting to thinking about killing her.

Volume 1 of the singer's long-awaited life story covers roughly the period from her birth to 1980, when Cher, a twice-divorced single mother with two children, found herself at a professional crossroads.