Like his ex-girlfriend Cher, Val Kilmer was also a famous face in the 1980’s and 1990’s, though his fame came from appearances in movies like “Heat,” “Top Gun,” and “True Romance.” In August 2021, Cher sat down with People to unpack her relationship with Kilmer, whom she met in the early 1980’s. “We became friends because we laughed at the same things constantly. He would sleep over and it was just a friendship [at first.] That took a long time. Well, I guess not really a long time,” Cher recalled. And once things heated up between Cher and Kilmer, they really heated up. “When we kissed, I thought my head would shoot right off my body,” she told Entertainment Tonight.
Eventually though, the pair went their separate ways, with Cher chalking up their split to a respective need for individualism. “We had unbelievable times and then put up with some times when they weren’t [that way] because we were both Alpha males,” she said, via People. Despite their breakup, the two have remained lifelong friends. Remarkably, Cher only has kind things to say about her ex. “He’s like nobody I’ve ever known,” she said. “He is exasperating and hysterical. Thrilling and funny, and doesn’t do what anyone else does,” the megastar told People. “I don’t know how we stayed friends, we just did. We didn’t try. We just were.”
