Superstar Cher has been accused by her daughter-in-law Marie King of kidnapping the singer’s troubled son — Elijah Blue Allman — and preventing the estranged couple’s alleged reconciliation, according to court documents in King’s ongoing divorce with Allman.
The accusations made last year against the 77-year-old singer/actress recently surfaced in legal filings obtained by People magazine in which King claimed that on the night of the estranged couple’s wedding anniversary the “Moonstruck” star allegedly hired a group of men to take her son from the former couple’s New York hotel room on Nov. 30, 2022 out of concern for him.
King said in the documents that they were trying to “reconcile” after they spent “12 days alone together from November 18-November 30, in New York, working on [their] marriage” when the alleged incident occurred.
Cher’s daughter-in-law also claimed in the legal filings that “one of the four men who took [Allman]” allegedly told “her that they were hired by (Elijah’s) mother, the Daily Mail noted.
Cher’s daughter-in-law says Cher hired four men to kidnap her own son to stop him from reconciling with her and save their marriage.
She alleges that on the night of their anniversary while they were trying to reconcile, four men barged into their hotel and took him, with one… pic.twitter.com/VXyWvadvgj
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“I am currently unaware of my husband’s wellbeing or whereabouts,” King said in the documents at the time. “I am very concerned and worried about him.”
“I understand his family’s efforts to make sure he is well, and I want what is best for my husband,” she added.
King also reportedly accused her mother-in-law of asking her to leave her home with Allman without retrieving “all my belongings from my primary home and residence” when Elijah reportedly went to receive medical care at a facility that was not disclosed to her in August 2022, the Daily Mail noted.
Allman is one of Cher’s two children. She shares Elijah with second husband, the late rock great Gregg Allman.
Elijah and King tied the knot in 2013, but never had any children. Allman said previously the two split in 2020.
In a 2014 interview, Cher’s son talked about his battle with drug addictions like heroin before he said he finally got sober in 2008, Entertainment Tonight reported.
“I started with drugs around the same time that we all did, around 11,” Elijah said of using weed and ecstasy. “I mean it’s just what you did, it’s just what everybody did.”
“I [was] just looking to escape all the things in my past and, that’s when you turn to those kind of drugs, you know heroin and opiates,” he added. “[Heroin] kind of saved me … If I didn’t have that at that point, I don’t know what I would have done …You may jump off a bridge. If you can only just go through that time period and live through it and then get help.”
But he admitted he almost died after overdosing.
“I did have some close calls and some moments of really feeling at the edge of mortality … I always kind of kept it a little bit safe but you never can do that,” Allman told the outlet.