Cher’s new memoir has been seven long years in the making. “It was really, really difficult,” the entertainer told Yahoo Entertainment about the book project she began in 2017, “and sometimes I just wanted to jump off a bridge.

I’ve lived too long, and done too much,” Cher recently proclaimed. What’s more, the 78-year-old American superstar singer, model, actor and comedian remembers all of it. Cher: The Memoir, Part One is published today,

While writing her two-part memoir, Cher threw out her first draft, which she felt wasn't revealing enough. Turning back time is more exhausting than it sounds. Cher, who released part 1 of her self-titled memoir on Nov.