“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, covering the first half of her turbulent life.

Though Cher and Sonny Bono’s marriage lasted less than a decade, their musical hits endured. Yet Cher details in her new memoir that the success of her creative partnership with her late husband wasn’t equally shared.

The Memoir, Part 1,' the entertainment legend looks back on her breaking point with husband Sonny Bono, revealing that after considering leaping from a hotel balcony in Las Vegas, she decided, "I can just leave him.