Cher has been within the limelight for 60 years, together with her tumultuous private life attracting virtually as a lot consideration as her chart-topping timeless music and her performing roles. Her two sons, Chaz Bono and Elijah Blue Allman have by no means identified life outdoors of that have.
Allman, the “Consider” singer’s youngest youngster, has made headlines a number of occasions himself, thanks each to his reasonably profitable music profession, his rocky relationship together with his mom, and his points with substance abuse.
Who’s Elijah Blue Allman?
Elijah Blue Allman is the son of singer Cher and rock musician Gregg Allman, from the the Allman Brothers Band. He was born on July 10, 1976, in Los Angeles, however his mother and father divorced quickly after, and thus his dad grew to become an absent determine in his life.
In line with the Day by day Mail, Cher despatched her son to Hyde College, a boarding college in Tub, Maine, at 8, the place he met his future bandmate, Renn Hawkey. Chatting with Leisure Tonight in 2014, Allman confessed he was solely 11 when he first began taking medicine, beginning with marijuana and ecstasy. “I imply it’s simply what you probably did, it’s simply what all people did,” he mentioned.
He graduated from college in 1994 and commenced making music shortly after with drummer Alec Puro and producer Josh Abraham. Allman despatched a few of their demos to Hawkey, and Deadsy was shaped. Whereas not precisely mainstream, the commercial metallic band gained a devoted following, releasing music and taking part in collectively till 2007. A few of their hottest tracks embody 2002’s “The Key to Gramercy Park,” and 2006’s “Model New Love.”
The years following have been a bit abandoned when it got here to Allman’s musical output. Deadsy went on a hiatus, presumably so the main man may launch some solo work, which by no means actually materialized. Adopting the title Elijah Blue and the Trapezoids for his solo outing, the musician ended up solely releasing just a few demos on social media.
Just a few years later, Allman contracted Lyme illness and fell critically ailing, finally transferring to Germany to obtain particular remedy. He met his future spouse, British singer Marieangela King, often known as Queenie within the rock band KING, throughout that interval. They married in December 2013. Allman has beforehand spoken in regards to the lack of help from his mother throughout his battle with Lyme illness, revealing in a 2014 interview that emotional help just isn’t “certainly one of her robust fits” and that his household was satisfied the sickness had been “imaginary.”
In the identical interview, Allman opened up about his strained relationship together with his mom, saying they’re not shut and that coping with her fame hasn’t at all times been simple. King additionally acquired to provide her two cents on the matter, calling the legendary performer “fascinating” and “sophisticated,” and reluctantly conceding that, though brief, more often than not that they had spent collectively had been constructive.
In the identical 12 months, Allman advised Leisure Tonight that he had been sober since 2008. His father, Gregg Allman, died in 2017, aged 69, on account of issues from liver most cancers. He additionally struggled with dependancy.
Elijah Blue Allman’s struggles with dependancy and conservatorship
Quick ahead a decade, and Cher has named her son’s spouse a “damaging presence in his life,” preserving him from sobriety and psychological well being, within the conservatorship request court docket paperwork obtained by TMZ in December 2023. The couple have been estranged since 2020, by which level Allman’s drug abuse had grow to be regarding. They tried to reconcile in November 2022, however the musician was allegedly kidnapped from the lodge they have been staying at collectively, and brought again to rehab. King alleged the lads have been performing on Cher’s orders.
After rehab, Allman lived on the Chateau Marmont for six months, as his mom tried to maintain him in verify with the assistance of a caretaker. Her efforts weren’t profitable, culminating in an episode in September 2023 when the Deadsy frontman handed out on the entrance of the lodge. In line with the Day by day Mail, the police took him again to rehab in Pasadena, California, two days later. His mom had been planning an intervention.
Within the conservatorship swimsuit, Cher claims that the musician is “considerably unable to handle his personal monetary assets on account of extreme psychological well being and substance abuse points.” Allman has but to launch an official assertion on the matter however has posted a number of cryptic photos on Instagram in the previous couple of days with the caption “Imprisonment through conservatorship.”