Cher told Oprah Winfrey that when she was 39 and Tom Cruise was 23, they hooked up.

Cher, now 61, says that if it wouldn’t have been for their hectic work schedules they may have had a “great big romance.” She adds, “I was crazy about him.”

The couple reportedly met at a White House fund raising event in the mid 80s.

“He was shy,” she told Oprah. “He said he felt like such a boob in school and nobody talked to him. We went on a date once for dinner in a New York restaurant and the waitress was from his old school. He told me she never talked to him back in school, but now he was recognized he got all her attention.”

The audience particularly loved it when Cher spoke of a night they spent together.

Cruise dumped Cher a couple months later for another older woman, Mimi Rogers, who was six years older than him. Tom and Mimi married but split three years later.

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