{"id":67289,"date":"2022-11-08T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=223833"},"modified":"2022-12-26T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T16:07:07","slug":"cher-age-gap-boyfriend-alexander-edwards","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/cher-age-gap-boyfriend-alexander-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher Defends Her 40-Year Age-Gap with Boyfriend in Her Signature Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67290\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67290 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1244458893-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LOS ANGELES, CA &#8211; NOVEMBER 02: Cher and Alexander Edwards are seen on November 02, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by joce zerojack\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, Cher made headlines when she was spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/cher-alexander-edwards\/\">holding hands with a mystery new man<\/a> while leaving dinner at a Los Angeles restaurant. Quickly, the 76-year-old legendary singer&#8217;s date was identified by the internet as 34-year-old musician Alexander \u201cAE\u201d Edwards, who works as the VP of A and R at the record label Def Jam and who previously dated, and has a child with, model Amber Rose.<\/p>\n<p>The photos \u2015 including one of Edwards kissing Cher&#8217;s hand \u2015 raised eyebrows about the pair&#8217;s 40-year age gap. Something Cher has now addressed in her signature way: with a succinct tweet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_223834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223834\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-223834 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1244458893.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1539\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-223834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LOS ANGELES, CA &#8211; NOVEMBER 02: Cher and Alexander Edwards are seen on November 02, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by joce zerojack\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLOVE DOESN\u2019T KNOW MATH, IT SEES \u2764\ufe0f \u2764\ufe0f,\u201d Cher wrote on the app in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CkoD72Xpc2T\/\"class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" role=\"link\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"since-deleted\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"636938b5e4b05f221e7c9e5d\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CkoD72Xpc2T\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" target=\"_blank\">since-deleted<\/a> tweet, before posting a close-up photo of Edwards\u2019 face, simply writing, \u201cAlexander \u2764\ufe0f,\u201d\u00a0as the caption. She went on to share that the two met at <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/cher-is-taking-over-paris-fashion-week\/\">Paris Fashion Week earlier this year<\/a> and that Edwards has met \u201ceveryone in my family\u201d and treats her \u201clike a queen.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"no\" dir=\"ltr\">Alexander\u2665\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o8tH1F0Th6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/o8tH1F0Th6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cher (@cher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cher\/status\/1589143240053182464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>When one fan wrote about being \u201cimmediately suspicious of his intentions,\u201d Cher opted to reply, writing that she wasn&#8217;t \u201cborn yesterday,\u201d before later adding to a different fan that she doesn&#8217;t &#8220;GIVE A\u2708\ufe0fFK WHAT ANYONE THINKS.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cAs we All Know \u2026I WASNT BORN YESTERDAY,&amp; What I Know For Sure\u2026There Are No Guarantees,\u201d Cher wrote. \u201cAnytime you make a Choice You Take a Chance.I\u2019ve Always Taken Chances\u2026It\u2019s WHO I Am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then added in a separate tweet to another person writing they were &#8220;suspicious,&#8221; \u201cHaven\u2019t You Got Anything Else 2 Do\u2049\ufe0f Let Me Explain\u2026I DONT GIVE A\u2708\ufe0fFK WHAT ANYONE THINKS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, when speaking to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/cher-opens-up-about-her-love-and-lasting-friendship-with-val-kilmer\/\"class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" role=\"link\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"People\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"636938b5e4b05f221e7c9e5d\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/cher-opens-up-about-her-love-and-lasting-friendship-with-val-kilmer\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"7\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> a<\/em>bout her dating history, which includes younger men such as Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, Cher said, \u201cThe truth was if I hadn\u2019t gone out with younger men, I would have never had a date. Younger men weren\u2019t intimidated by older women. But older men in my age category, they weren\u2019t having it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final word?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m Not Defending us.Haters are Gonna Hate\u2026Doesn\u2019 Matter<br \/>That we\u2019re Happy &amp; Not<br \/>Bothering Anyone<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cher (@cher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cher\/status\/1589299132690272262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9593,"featured_media":67290,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cher Defends Her 40-Year Age-Gap with Boyfriend Alexander AE Edwards<\/title>\n<meta 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