Cher, 77, Reveals She Fell for Boyfriend AE Edwards, 37, via Text: It’s ‘Never Too Late’ for Romance

Cher, 77, is solely “not stunned” by the general public fascination leveled at her yearlong romance with Alexander ‘AE’ Edwards, 37. “Alexander’s acquired diamond tooth, tattoos, white hair, and he’s manner youthful,” the music icon advised PEOPLE for an interview revealed on Wednesday, October 11. “He’s a lovely man. Additionally, I feel it’s enjoyable to be desirous about any individual else’s love life!”

Within the revealing interview, Cher additionally appeared again on how she met Alexander, and the way the romance developed by way of textual content message. She advised the outlet they met briefly, “for about quarter-hour,” throughout Paris Style Week in 2022. A mutual pal subsequently gave the music exec her telephone quantity, a transfer she known as “surprising.”

“It was actually surprising, as a result of individuals simply don’t give out my quantity,” she exclaimed. “I had been telling all my mates, ‘We’re too previous to exit with actually youthful males, and I’ll by no means fall in love on textual content.’ So I did what I mentioned to not do!”

Nevertheless, she added, AE is “particular.” “I hate when individuals say persons are particular, however a lot of individuals say I’m particular, so I can say that he’s particular,” she mentioned. “It doesn’t matter what occurs, I like being with him. He makes me chuckle, and we have now enjoyable. What I realized is that it’s by no means too late. Should you wrote out all of the statistics, you’ll go, ‘Effectively, that is doomed.’ However we’ve been collectively a 12 months, and if it was only a 12 months, it will’ve been price it. I’ve had one of the best time.”

And whereas a lot has been made from their decades-long age hole, Cher says that’s not what’s vital. “You probably have happiness, you possibly can’t take into consideration how lengthy it’s going to final,” she defined. “It’s important to take into consideration ‘How does it really feel?’ and reside within the second.”

Cher and AE Edwards subsequently started relationship and went public in November of 2022. In December of final 12 months, rumors of an engagement emerged when she wore a glowing diamond ring from the producer. Nevertheless, (lavish reward however,) the duo just isn’t engaged, and regardless of further hypothesis they’d damaged up final spring, they’re nonetheless going robust.