Cher is said to be focused solely on the recovery of her son Elijah Blue Allman following reports he was hospitalised after an overdose in California.
The singer’s youngest son, 48, was taken to hospital on June 14 after emergency services were called to a home in Joshua Tree.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department confirmed they responded to reports of a man “acting erratically” at a property in the 2300 block of Cambria Avenue in Landers, near Joshua Tree.
In a statement, a spokesperson said: “When deputies arrived, Elijah Allman, 48, was being evaluated by emergency medical personnel. Deputies located drugs inside the home, and Allman was transported to the hospital.”
While details of his condition have not been confirmed, sources told TMZ he has since been discharged and is now recovering at home.
The outlet added that Cher’s “only concern right now is for her son’s well-being”, while she has been doing all she can “to get him the help he needs”.
The 78-year-old has yet to make a public statement, but reports suggest she has been by his side throughout the ordeal.
A source close to the family told the outlet he was “very lucky to have survived.”
Last week, it was reported that Allman was “receiving the best care possible” in hospital and his “very lucky to have survived”. It is not known which drugs he took.
Allman, who is a singer himself, has spoken about his drug use before, previously revealing he started smoking weed and taking ecstasy when he was just 11.
Cher’s youngest child said his drug use led to some “close calls” with death, adding that he abused substances to “escape all the things in [his] past”.
“[Heroin] kind of saved me,” he told ET in 2014. “If I didn’t have that at that point, I don’t know what I would have done … You may jump off a bridge. If you can only just go through that time period and live through it, and then get help.
“I did have some close calls and some moments of really feeling at the edge of mortality… I always kind of kept it a little bit safe, but you never can do that.”
Cher filed to be Allman’s conservator in 2023 so she could manage his finances.
The Believe singer claimed her son was “substantially unable to manage his own financial resources due to severe mental health and substance abuse issues”.
She feared that Allman was using regular payouts from a trust set up by his late father Greg - who died in 2017 - to buy drugs, according to court documents.
Cher's lawyers argued that the support Allman was getting was from people who tell him what he wants to hear and downplay the size of his problems.
They said his current apparent sobriety and mental health were illusory.
They said he suffers from bipolar disorder, has been recently homeless, and that having large amounts of money might lead to access to drugs that could endanger his life.
The musician said she was the best person to be his conservator, with two of Allman’s siblings also nominating her.
Allman and his lawyers consistently argued that Cher’s claims were untrue. Her request was dismissed in January 2024.
Cher also has a child, Chaz Bono, with her former husband Sonny Bono.
