Cher: The night I took a drunken John Lennon to the Playboy mansion - and he stripped stark naked in front of me in the infamous secret Grotto
Daily MailWalking into an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles one Sunday evening I bumped into John Lennon and his friend Harry Nilsson and they asked if I could take them to Hugh Hefner's house for movie night. I was just an employee who couldn't even sign a cheque or withdraw any money without their signatures and, beyond that, I could only work with Sonny's permission. It couldn't change anything, but it felt good to know deep down inside that he'd realised for the first time how hurtful what he'd done was and was genuinely sorry. Dyslexia testing didn't exist when I was a child and I'd never even heard the word until Chas's diagnosis, but it explained so much. Though I was performing on The Sonny & Cher Show, I knew that wouldn't add up to people thinking I could be taken seriously as an actress.
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