Cher has two children from two marriages: Chaz, her son with Sonny Bono, and Elijah Blue Allman, her son from her marriage to singer Gregg Allman (via Hollywood Life). In the late 1990s, Michael Jackson welcomed kids Prince and Paris with ex-wife Debbie Rowe. The singer was granted full custody of his children following his divorce from Rowe in 1999, according to People. In 2002, he became father to a third child, Prince Michael Jackson II, via surrogate. It was Jackson’s parenting of the third child, nicknamed “Blanket” and now legally named Bigi, that Cher took issue with.
In a 2003 interview with TV Guide (per Entertainment Weekly), Cher revealed that she was no longer a fan of Jackson and that it was due to the bizarre way in which he parented his children. Jackson famously hid his young kids behind masks and other face coverings when they were out in public, but Cher witnessed how baby Blanket was hidden while she was taping a TV special with Jackson — and she thought it was really strange.
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“He had this child rolled up in a blanket, and I was thinking, ‘What kind of life is this?”‘ Cher said. “I cannot imagine putting my children through what he put his children through.” The “Believe” singer went so far as to call Jackson “nuts” and added, “He shouldn’t have these children.”‘
