“Do you know what a scoop this is? I don’t know why– we should have been paid for this, Sonny, to come on Late Night for a reunion,” Cher said in disbelief on November 13, 1987.
It was a spectacular moment in television at the time, and 38 years later just as heartwarming and complicated and bittersweet.
Cher, who had a rocky relationship with talk show host David Letterman, had called him an a-hole just a year prior on the program, and now she found herself being reunited with her ex-husband, who she also had issues with.
And yet there they all were: Sonny holding Cher’s hand, Dave smiling and joking, awkwardly as ever, still obsessed with her tattoos as he was during their first interview.
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