Cher uncovered a surprising detail about her identity when she began the process of legally changing her name.

The 78-year-old music legend, who to her knowledge was born Cherilyn Sarkisian, revealed in her memoir, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” that she was “shocked” to see her name registered as Cheryl on a copy of her birth certificate she had applied for in 1979.

“I believed Cherilyn was my name until the day years later when I decided to legally change my name to simply Cher,” she wrote, according to People. 

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