Val Kilmer has credited his former girlfriend Cher with helping him smile through the worst of his cancer crisis after putting him up in her Los Angeles guest house.
The stars have remained good friends since dating in the early 1980s, and the Heat star reveals Cher was a crucial part of his support system as he battled throat cancer in 2015.
He has opened up about their close bond in his new autobiography, I’m Your Huckleberry: A Memoir, recalling how the Believe hitmaker inadvertently helped to lighten the mood during one particularly scary health emergency at her home, when he had to be transported by ambulance to a local hospital. “One night I suddenly awoke vomiting blood that covered the bed like a scene out of The Godfather,” he