Cher just told Graham Norton she was wilder at nine years old than she ever was as a teenager, and the “mugshot” they showed isn’t even a mugshot.
Graham brings up her mom’s five-year rule: if it doesn’t matter in five years, it doesn’t matter. Cher says it still helps her. Then he calls her a wild child and she shuts that down immediately. She says she ran away from home, stole a horse, jumped on a freighter, and only stopped when her friend started crying for her mom. She was nine.
They pull up what looks like a mugshot. Cher freezes, says that’s not real, she never got arrested for that. It’s her eighth-grade school picture. Some magazine just made it look like a booking photo for the joke. She swears she would admit it if it was true.
Then she tells the actual story: she learned to drive at 11 because her grandfather taught her. One night her friend’s boyfriend went inside a bowling alley “for four seconds” and never came back. So the two of them started driving around the parking lot, then around the block, then to a drive-in for drinks. They got stopped and taken to jail. Not fully arrested, just a warning. Graham is dying the whole time.
She tells it like it’s nothing. Just another thing that happened when she was a kid.
@Itssan17 The movie is great if your 6 years old. I think that was the target audience. They couldn't understand the plot, but it was colorful with goofy monsters.