Cher Files for a Conservatorship of Son Elijah Blue Allman

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

According to paperwork filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by PEOPLE, the singer and actress, 77, is looking for to be the only conservator of her son’s property, claiming that he’s “substantially unable to manage his financial resources.”

The doc states that though Elijah is because of obtain property from belief earlier than the top of the yr, a conservator is “urgently needed … to protect Elijah’s property from loss or injury” as a result of he’s “currently unable to manage his assets due to severe mental health and substance abuse issues.” The doc additionally states that his estranged spouse, Marieangela King, isn’t match to be his conservator as a result of “their tumultuous relationship has been marked by a cycle of drug addiction and mental health crises.”

The submitting continues, “Elijah is entitled to regular distributions from the Trust, but given his ongoing mental health and substance abuse issues, [Cher] is concerned that any funds distributed to Elijah will be immediately spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself and putting Elijah’s life at risk.”

The submitting concludes by stating that the Moonstruck actress has reportedly “worked tirelessly to get Elijah into treatment and get him the help he needs.”

“[Cher] loves Elijah immensely and has always acted with his best interests in mind,” the submitting states, including that she has been “unable to discuss his preferences concerning the appointment of a temporary conservator” as a result of of his “current mental and physical health issues.”

A rep for Cher didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark. A listening to for a short-term order is at present 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 Elijah’s ordeal, opening as much as PEOPLE about her relationship together 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 City lodge room in an obvious intervention in November 2022. King made the declare in divorce paperwork she filed final December that not too long ago surfaced.

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

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

“I’m not suffering from any problem that millions of people in the United States aren’t,” Cher stated of watching her son’s years-long struggles with substance abuse. “I’m a mother. This is my job — one way or another, to try to help my children. You do anything for your children. Whenever you can help them, you just do it because that’s what being a mother is. But it’s joy, even with heartache — mostly, when you think of your children, you just smile and you love them, and you try to be there for them.” 

In the court docket paperwork, King, 36, alleged that the famous person 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 making an attempt to “reconcile” their marriage and he or she was involved for her son’s effectively being. 

King, who is understood professionally as Queenie, claimed they’d spent “12 days alone together from November 18-November 30, in New York, working on [their] marriage” on the time of the incident. In the paperwork, she additionally claimed “one of the four men who took [Allman]” instructed her that the Grammy winner employed them. 

Despite their variations, Cher maintained that she is going to all the time be there for her youngsters.

“I may fill a . . . I don’t even know, one thing gigantic with what I don’t know [about parenting],” Cher instructed PEOPLE in October. “I just keep trying.”