Cher’s 48-year-old son, Elijah Blue Allman, was rushed to the hospital after overdosing in Joshua Tree, California on Saturday morning, in keeping with TMZ.
Elijah is reportedly nonetheless within the hospital and “receiving the best care possible,” the outlet reported on Sunday.
TMZ added that Elijah is “lucky to have survived.”
It’s unclear what medicine Elijah was utilizing.
Sources informed TMZ that Cher, 79, is concentrated on her son’s well-being and is “doing everything she can to get him the help he needs.”
The Submit has reached out to Cher for remark.
Elijah’s father was the late Southern rockstar Gregg Allman, whom Cher was married to from 1975 to 1979. He died of issues from liver most cancers at age 69 in Could 2017.
Elijah has handled substance abuse points since he was a child.
In 2014, he informed Leisure Tonight that he began utilizing medicine at age 11. “I [was] just looking to escape all the things in my past and, that’s when you turn to those kind of drugs, you know heroin and opiates,” he mentioned.
“[Heroin] kind of saved me. If I didn’t have that at that point, I don’t know what I would have done,” Elijah added. “You may jump off a bridge. If you can only just go through that time period and live through it and then get help.”
He additionally recalled having “some close calls and some moments of really feeling at the edge of mortality.”
In Dec. 2023, Cher utilized to put her son in a conservatorship, claiming he couldn’t “substantially manage his own financial resources” due to “severe mental health and substance abuse issues.”
“Any funds distributed to Elijah will immediately be spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself, and putting Elijah’s life at risk,” the authorized paperwork said.
She additionally claimed that Elijah’s estranged spouse, Marieangela King, was a foul affect on her son and actively labored towards her efforts to get him assist.
King, for her half, accused the “Believe” singer of hiring 4 males to kidnap Elijah to ship him to a rehab facility.
Cher denied King’s kidnapping allegations and informed The Submit on the time, “I didn’t do it, and if I did it, I wouldn’t say I did it.”
The Goddess of Pop later dismissed the conservatorship case in September 2024.
King filed for divorce from Elijah in April, citing irreconcilable variations. She marked their date of separation as March 31, 2025.
Final month, Elijah appeared raveled as he was noticed outdoors the well-known Chateau Marmont lodge in Los Angeles.
He was smoking a cigarette, his garments had been in tatters and he had sores on his physique. He additionally struggled to face up straight as he stumbled across the Hollywood hotspot.
