Cher's son Elijah Allman hospitalized after erratic behavior, officials say

Elijah Allman, lad of popular icon Cher and songwriter Gregg Allman, landed successful the infirmary this play aft instrumentality enforcement responded to a study of a antheral “acting erratically” successful a location successful the Mojave Desert.

Deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department connected Saturday responded to the residence successful the unincorporated assemblage of Landers wherever Allman, 48, “was being evaluated by exigency aesculapian personnel,” officials said successful a connection shared with People. Deputies besides “located drugs wrong the home” and the musicians’ lad was transported to a hospital.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, which did not instantly respond connected Monday to The Times’ petition for remark and further information, said it is investigating the incident. The connection did not uncover whether cause usage led to Allman’s hospitalization but TMZ, which broke the news, reported helium overdosed earlier Saturday morning. A root told the outlet Allman is “receiving the champion attraction possible” and “lucky to person survived.”

A typical for Cher did not remark to The Times connected Monday.

Marieangela King, Allman’s estranged wife, expressed enactment for her hubby and spoke astir his “unwavering committedness to sobriety and his loyalty to those helium loves” successful a connection to People. She acknowledged that her spouse has “faced idiosyncratic challenges successful the past.”

“Like many, helium continues to face his interior struggles — but it is important to admit that helium does truthful from a spot of strength, not defeat,” she added. “Despite the assumptions that often colour however his travel is portrayed, the world is that Elijah remains grounded, focused and profoundly committed to surviving with integrity and purpose.”

Allman has been unfastened astir his struggles with sobriety successful the past, telling Entertainment Tonight successful a 2014 interrogation that his cause addiction began earlier helium was adjacent a teenager. “I mean it’s conscionable what you did, it’s conscionable what everyone did,” helium told Rob Marciano astatine the time.

“I [was] conscionable looking to flight each the things successful my past and that’s erstwhile you crook to those benignant of drugs, you cognize heroin and opiates,” helium said successful 2014. He besides recalled “some adjacent calls and immoderate moments of truly feeling astatine the borderline of mortality.”

Details of his alleged cause usage besides surfaced successful December 2023 erstwhile his parent filed her bid for conservatorship to instrumentality implicit his finances. The Grammy-winning “Believe” vocalist alleged astatine the clip that her lad was “substantially incapable to negociate his ain fiscal resources owed to terrible intelligence wellness and substance maltreatment issues.” Cher ended her conservatorship bid little than a twelvemonth later, dismissing her petition successful September 2024.

King filed a petition to divorcement Allman successful Los Angeles successful April, citing “irreconcilable differences.” The couple, who joined successful December 2013, was antecedently headed for divorcement erstwhile Allman filed a petition successful 2021. In January 2024, helium filed to disregard that lawsuit without prejudice. Amid their ongoing narration tensions, King underscored successful her play statement, “I volition ever basal for him.

“My enactment is steadfast and comes from a spot of heavy respect for the idiosyncratic helium is and the resilience helium continues to show,” King said.