The Memoir, Part One,' out Nov. 19, Cher writes that her then-husband, Sonny Bono, “manhandled” her during an escalation early in their relationship.

Cher wasn’t kidding when she sang “Love Hurts.” The singer soared to stardom in the ’60s alongside Sonny Bono as the pop duo Sonny & Cher, but their split was as bitter as they come, with Cher claiming Bono took all her money.

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.