Cher Once Brought a Tipsy John Lennon to the Playboy Mansion, Where He Went Skinny-Dipping: ‘Like Herding Drunks’

Mar. 15, 2025

Cher in 2018; John Lennon in 1967.Photo:Mike Marsland/WireImage; David Redfern/Redferns

Mike Marsland/WireImage; David Redfern/Redferns

Chersaw a new side ofJohn Lennonduring a drunken adventure at the Playboy Mansion.In her memoir,Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the singer recalled when she andthen-boyfriend David Geffenbrought the Beatle and the late Harry Nilsson to the Playboy Mansion for what should have been a low-key evening.In the book, Cher, 78, writes that she ran into Lennon and Nilsson at a bar, and the latter told her that Lennon was “dying to see the Playboy Mansion,” so she agreed to take them to one ofHugh Hefner’s casual movie night.TheMoonstruckactress writes that when she arrived to the mansion with Lennon and Nilsson, she realized they were more drunk than she had thought.Cher in 2024.Cindy Ord/GettyBefore the screening started, Lennon and Nilsson “put on aristocratic English accents and started chanting, ‘Hef! Hef! Hef!’ except with the accents it sounded like ‘Huff! Huff! Huff!’ " she writes.Cher, who writes that she was “mortified,” added that while Geffen, 81, apologized to Hefner, she ventured outside with Lennon and Nilsson, who proceeded to undress and go swimming in the mansion’s famous grotto off the swimming pool.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“Guys, do not come out. This is not pretty what I’m seeing. Please do not come out,” she writes of the hilarious scene.Nilsson and Lennon kept “threatening to wander around the mansion naked,” Cher writes, and it took her “ages to get them back in their clothes. It was like herding drunks.“John Lennon in 1977.Vinnie Zuffante/GettyCher’s memoir is packed with anecdotes about her life, including herfirst impression of Dolly Parton,losing her virginity as a teenagerandher relationship with Sonny Bonoamong many other revelations.During a recent appearance onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Cher said the book was “a bitch” to write.“It’s not going through your life that’s hard so much, but I did it a couple times because the first time it didn’t work out. The second time, I just didn’t want to tell anything, and then I thought, ‘You know what? Give back the money,” she told Fallon. “It’s hard because when you’re telling your life there’s parts you’d like to guard. And I just thought, ‘I have to tell everything.'“Cher: The Memoir, Part One, is now available for purchase wherever books are sold.

Chersaw a new side ofJohn Lennonduring a drunken adventure at the Playboy Mansion.

In her memoir,Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the singer recalled when she andthen-boyfriend David Geffenbrought the Beatle and the late Harry Nilsson to the Playboy Mansion for what should have been a low-key evening.

In the book, Cher, 78, writes that she ran into Lennon and Nilsson at a bar, and the latter told her that Lennon was “dying to see the Playboy Mansion,” so she agreed to take them to one ofHugh Hefner’s casual movie night.

TheMoonstruckactress writes that when she arrived to the mansion with Lennon and Nilsson, she realized they were more drunk than she had thought.

Cher in 2024.Cindy Ord/Getty

Cindy Ord/Getty

Before the screening started, Lennon and Nilsson “put on aristocratic English accents and started chanting, ‘Hef! Hef! Hef!’ except with the accents it sounded like ‘Huff! Huff! Huff!’ " she writes.

Cher, who writes that she was “mortified,” added that while Geffen, 81, apologized to Hefner, she ventured outside with Lennon and Nilsson, who proceeded to undress and go swimming in the mansion’s famous grotto off the swimming pool.

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

“Guys, do not come out. This is not pretty what I’m seeing. Please do not come out,” she writes of the hilarious scene.

Nilsson and Lennon kept “threatening to wander around the mansion naked,” Cher writes, and it took her “ages to get them back in their clothes. It was like herding drunks.”

John Lennon in 1977.Vinnie Zuffante/Getty

Vinnie Zuffante/Getty

Cher’s memoir is packed with anecdotes about her life, including herfirst impression of Dolly Parton,losing her virginity as a teenagerandher relationship with Sonny Bonoamong many other revelations.

During a recent appearance onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Cher said the book was “a bitch” to write.

“It’s not going through your life that’s hard so much, but I did it a couple times because the first time it didn’t work out. The second time, I just didn’t want to tell anything, and then I thought, ‘You know what? Give back the money,” she told Fallon. “It’s hard because when you’re telling your life there’s parts you’d like to guard. And I just thought, ‘I have to tell everything.'”

Cher: The Memoir, Part One, is now available for purchase wherever books are sold.

source: people.com