MORE details about Cher’s rocky relationship with her son Elijah Blue Allman have come to light as claims recently surfaced that the singer had him kidnapped.
The supposed kidnapping happened in November 2022, when Cher allegedly ordered four men to remove her son from a hotel room, according to court papers obtained by DailyMail.com.
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Elijah – who had struggled with drug addiction for years – was apparently trying to reconcile with his estranged wife, Marieangela King, when he was taken.
Marieangela said in a declaration to a Los Angeles court hearing that her mother-in-law was worried about Elijah’s health as he had been in a bad way for months.
Photos showed the 47-year-old looking disheveled in September while at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, where he had been living for the past six months.
Cher, 77, had since been reportedly planning an intervention for Elijah and had four people bust into his hotel room on November 30.
At the time, Elijah and Marieangela, 36, were working out their marriage issues, and Marieangela had spent 12 days in New York so they could do so.
The night Elijah was allegedly kidnapped was their nine-year anniversary.
“On November 30, 2022, the night of our wedding anniversary, four people came to our hotel room and removed (Elijah) from our room,” Marieangela recalled in her declaration to the court.
“I was told by one of the four men who took him that they were hired by (Elijah’s) mother.”
She also claimed she was “unaware of my husband’s well-being or whereabouts” and noted that he was in “lockdown at a treatment facility.”
Marieangela also stated: “I understand his family’s efforts to make sure he is well, and I want what is best for my husband.”
Elijah is reportedly now in a rehabilitation center in Pasadena, California, after collapsing on the pavement leading to his hotel’s entrance.
DRUG ADDICTION
But Cher knew her son’s troubling behavior long before this latest incident.
At eight years old, the Believe singer shipped Elijah – whose father is Cher’s late second husband, Gregg Allman – to boarding school.
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In a 2014 interview with Entertainment Tonight, he admitted that drug issues began not too long after.
“I started with drugs around the same time that we all did, around 11,” Elijah told the outlet.
“I mean it’s just what you did, it’s just what everybody did.”
Elijah confessed to eventually turning to hard drugs, such as heroin and opiates and nearly died multiple times.
Cher apparently had enough of her son’s antics and oftentimes went years without speaking to her second-born child.
She also allegedly didn’t congratulate Elijah and Marieangela after their elopement in 2013 or their engagement.
‘I WAS ASKED TO LEAVE’
It seems that the movie star still has salty feelings toward their marriage, as Marieangela claimed in her declaration to the court that her mother-in-law kicked her out of the house she was living in.
Elijah had supposedly started unspecified “medical care” when Marieangela got the boot from the home in August 2022.
“I had lost both my housing and healthcare and had to leave the country to stay with relatives for a while,” Marieangela claimed.
“In my husband’s absence, I was asked to leave our family home by (Elijah’s) mother.
“I was not allowed to retrieve all my belongings from our primary home and residence, nor was I given the opportunity to inventory our assets.”
Elijah initially filed for divorce from Mariangela, saying the split was in April 2020; however, she claims they separated in late 2021.
The pair don’t have any children together.
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