Cher Files for a Conservatorship of Son Elijah Blue Allman

Cher has filed for a conservatorship of her son Elijah Blue Allman as a result of his alleged current substance abuse points.

In keeping with paperwork filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket and obtained by PEOPLE, the singer and actress, 77, is looking for to be the only real conservator of her son’s property, claiming that he’s “considerably unable to handle his monetary assets.”

The doc states that though Allman is because of obtain belongings from belief earlier than the tip of the yr, a conservator is “urgently wanted … to guard Elijah’s property from loss or harm” as a result of he’s “presently unable to handle his belongings as a result of extreme psychological well being and substance abuse points.” The doc additionally states that his estranged spouse, Marieangela King, is just not match to be his conservator as a result of “their tumultuous relationship has been marked by a cycle of drug habit and psychological well being crises.”

The submitting continues, “Elijah is entitled to common distributions from the Belief, however given his ongoing psychological well being and substance abuse points, [Cher] is anxious that any funds distributed to Elijah might be instantly spent on medicine, leaving Elijah with no belongings to supply for himself and placing Elijah’s life in danger.”

The submitting concludes by stating that the Moonstruck actress has reportedly “labored tirelessly to get Elijah into therapy and get him the assistance he wants.”

“[Cher] loves Elijah immensely and has at all times acted together with his finest pursuits in thoughts,” the submitting states, including that she has been “unable to debate his preferences regarding the appointment of a brief conservator” due to his “present psychological and bodily well being points.”

A rep for Cher didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark. A listening to for a brief order is presently set for Jan. 5, 2024, with the listening to on a everlasting order scheduled for March 6, 2024.

In October, Cher broke her silence on Allman’s ordeal, opening as much as PEOPLE about her relationship along with her 47-year-old son after a report surfaced that she allegedly employed 4 males to forcibly take away her son from a New York Metropolis lodge room in an obvious intervention in November 2022. King made the declare in divorce paperwork she filed final December that lately surfaced.

Concerning the allegations, Cher instructed PEOPLE “that rumor is just not true” and declined to remark additional.

She did, nevertheless, verify that the non-public household matter was associated to her son’s habit points, which he has spoken overtly about over time.

“I’m not affected by any drawback that hundreds of thousands of individuals in the USA aren’t,” Cher stated of watching her son’s years-long struggles with substance abuse. “I’m a mom. That is my job — a technique or one other, to attempt to assist my kids. You do something to your kids. At any time when you’ll be able to assist them, you simply do it as a result of that’s what being a mom is. But it surely’s pleasure, even with heartache — principally, once you consider your kids, you simply smile and you like them, and also you attempt to be there for them.” 

Within the court docket paperwork, King, 36, alleged that the celebrity employed the boys to take away Allman — whose dad is the late rocker Gregg Allman — from their lodge room as a result of they have been attempting to “reconcile” their marriage and he or she was involved for her son’s effectively being. 

King, who is understood professionally as Queenie, claimed that they had spent “12 days alone collectively from November 18-November 30, in New York, engaged on [their] marriage” on the time of the incident. Within the paperwork, she additionally claimed “one of many 4 males who took [Allman]” instructed her that the Grammy winner employed them. 

Regardless of their variations, Cher maintained that she’s going to at all times be there for her children.

“I might fill a . . . I don’t even know, one thing gigantic with what I don’t know [about parenting],” Cher instructed PEOPLE in October. “I simply maintain attempting.”