Cher’s recovering drug addict son, Elijah Blue Allman, is criticizing his superstar mother, calling her “misguided” and “unfit” to handle a conservatorship he is asking a court to impose on her.
“I have seen her suffer from depression in the past and I do not believe she is capable of making appropriate decisions for my estate,” says the late rocker’s 47-year-old son, Gregg Allman, in new court documents discovered by Daily Mail.com
‘I don’t need guardianship. The only person who can save me from my demons is me, and that’s precisely what I’m doing.’
Cher asked the Los Angeles Superior Court last December to appoint her as Elijah’s temporary guardian, arguing that his past drug addiction, as well as physical and mental health problems, prevent her from managing the $120,000 a year she receives from a trust fund created for him by his father. , who died in 2017.
Cher has been asking to be named guardian of her son Elijah Blue Allman, arguing that his drug addiction prevents her from managing his trust fund.
‘I don’t need guardianship. The only person who can save me from my demons is me, and that’s precisely what I’m doing,” Allman wrote. He is pictured with his wife Marieangela ‘Queeny’ King at a court hearing in January.
The 77-year-old singing legend said he feared Elijah would spend his $30,000 quarterly payments on drugs, putting his life in danger.
But at a hearing in January, Judge Jessica Uzcategui refused to name Cher as guardian, saying the star’s lawyers had not given Elijah enough notice of the court action and had refused to share confidential information with him. about your case.
Still, the judge allowed the star to continue his quest for conservatorship, and now Allman is voicing his “vehement” objections ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 11.
“I understand that a guardianship is appropriate for a person who is substantially incapable of managing his or her own financial resources or resisting fraud or undue influence,” he writes in the new legal documents.
‘In the months since the petition was filed… I paid my bills, instructed the trust administrator to pay other expenses, released new music on February 8 with my band Deadsy, and am in talks about other creative projects.
‘I also hired an accounting firm to help me pay my taxes and manage my finances. I am and have been able to manage my own financial resources and resist fraud and undue influence.
‘I don’t need guardianship.
‘Given that several months have passed since this matter was raised and I have been able to manage my finances appropriately, it appears that the concerns raised… by the petitioner (Cher), even if true, do not rise to the level of “It is necessary to restrict my civil rights and my freedom with a guardianship,” Alllman added.
In his new court filing, Allman fiercely disputes his mother’s claims that he is mentally ill and in danger of returning to the drugs that nearly destroyed his life.
‘My mother’s request raises the dual concerns that I suffer from mental illness and that I live hand to mouth by using my trust distributions to buy drugs and put myself in mortal danger.
“I’ve struggled with addiction, but I’m not mentally ill,” he said.
‘The absence of evidence of the concerns (related to ‘cyclical’ mental illness addiction) raised in the petition over the past four months are evidence that I have control over my faculties and that I am not mentally ill.’
But he said he recognized that Cher believes he is doing what is good for him.
‘I know my mother’s goals are not nefarious… I know my mother’s actions are meant to help me, but I don’t need this help,’ he insisted.
‘My mother seems to believe that controlling these quarterly trust distributions will prevent me from engaging in self-destructive behavior. She is wrong.
‘In the event that I feel inclined to engage in self-destructive behavior, I do not need my trust distributions to do so; The world is full of addicts and mentally ill people who have no trust distribution to profit from. The only person who can save me from my demons is me, and that’s precisely what I’m doing.’
Cher suffers from depression and “is unable to make appropriate decisions for my estate,” Allman, 47, says in court papers.
Under California law, a court appointing a conservator can give priority to any close relative it decides could do the best job.
And while Allman opposes any guardian, if the judge decides to appoint one, he believes the priority should go to his wife, rock singer Marieangela ‘Queeny’ King, 36, whom he nearly divorced last year. until the two kissed and made out. He got up and decided to give his 11-year marriage another chance.
“My wife has the right to priority,” he says. “Therefore, it is my understanding that Cher is no longer entitled to priority.”
There’s no love lost between King and his famous mother-in-law. Cher claims that King has been a “destructive presence” in her life, impeding his efforts to stay clean and sober.
King, in turn, accuses Cher of trying to thwart her reconciliation with Elijah by kidnapping him from a New York hotel and sending him to a rehab center. Cher has denied that accusation.
“My mother and I have had a strained relationship for years,” Allman claims in his new court papers. ‘As an example, on October 17, 2023, my mother arranged for me to be brought to Mexico for what I was told was ‘holistic alternative therapy.’
‘Upon arriving in Mexico, I was told that I was not there to receive holistic/alternative treatment and, in fact, I was not allowed to leave.
‘It was my wife who hired a lawyer and negotiated my release from the facilities in Mexico.
‘While I want to believe that my mother wants the best for me, I know personally that she does not manage her own finances. Therefore, I am very concerned about this court allowing her to manage any of mine.
Allman says she has “no doubt” that if her mother were named guardian, she would “delegate responsibility” to her personal assistant Jennifer Ruiz and “other people under her control, people with whom I have negative associations.”
And he adds: «My mother is seventy-seven years old and will be seventy-eight when this matter is known. I have seen her suffer from depression in the past and I do not believe she is capable of making appropriate decisions for my estate.’
Allman’s sobriety claims come seven months after he collapsed at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood, where he had been living for six months. He immediately entered rehab.
Cher has insisted that, as Elijah’s mother, she is best suited to be his guardian and that she has received family support on the issue.
Referring to Elijah’s on-again, off-again marriage to King, “Their tumultuous relationship has been marked by a cycle of drug addiction and mental health crises,” she said in court papers.
Cher claims that King has not “supported Elijah’s recovery and…actively works to prevent Elijah from getting clean and sober or receiving the mental health treatment he desperately needs.”
He cited Elijah’s volatile relationship with his wife as one of the reasons King “has no right to be appointed conservator of Elijah’s estate.”
He said it “would be unsafe for Elijah and his estate” to assign King any control of the conservatorship, and said it would “result in the immediate loss or dissipation of Elijah’s assets for self-destructive purposes.”
Allman lived at Hollywood’s famous Chateau Marmont hotel for six months last year before collapsing and being sent to rehab.
Marieangela criticized Cher in a public statement, claiming that the pop singer “historically excluded” her from decisions regarding Elijah’s care.
Cher, 77, has long had a contentious relationship with both Elijah and her daughter-in-law Marieangela (pictured together in 2018).
For his part, King made a statement to DailyMail.com in January about the Mexican rehabilitation Allman refers to in his latest court filing.
He accused Cher of throwing Elijah “into a confinement center” in Rosarita, Mexico, saying he had “historically excluded” her (King) from participating in his treatment decisions.
“I have always been an advocate for the sober community and for Elijah’s sobriety,” King said in the statement.
‘I have complete confidence in legitimate, ethically operated, HIPAA-protected American medical facilities that offer long-lasting, proven treatments for those suffering from substance abuse or any number of mental health issues.
‘What doesn’t seem right to me is that they exclude me (his wife) from being part of Elijah’s treatment and hopeful recovery.
‘I do not agree with emerging, improvised and unethical fraudulent rehabs that take full advantage of families in desperate situations and seek to fraudulently exploit insurance companies for services not provided.
“I especially disagree that Elijah was coerced under false pretenses on or around October 17, 2023 to participate in an alternative medicine regimen and then be thrown into a locked facility in Mexico, sleeping behind a cage.” closed with six other people, under one imposed Mexican guardianship.’
The statement, issued through her record company, said: “It is no exaggeration to say that Mrs. King recently risked her own life to ensure her husband’s safe return to the United States.”
He did not go into detail about the circumstances under which King risked his life.
The statement went on to say: “Any rumors circulating that suggest that Ms. King has been anything other than an exemplary wife to Mr. Allman or that she is in any way complicit in impeding his recovery are patently false.”