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== Interviews == "What sounds like jaded ennui is really [[Epstein-Barr virus|Epstein-Barr]]. Cher discovered she carried the energy-sapping virus during the filming of ''The Witches of Eastwick'' in 1986, but she wasn't fully aware of the disease's debilitating force until she began her latest film, ''Mermaids'', which opens next month. Production had to be shut down while she regained her strength. {{Quote frame|text= "I was so sick I thought I was going to die. I went to doctor after doctor." |source=Vanity Fair (1990)<ref>{{Cite news |url =https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1990/11/cher-199011/amp | title =Cher: Star-Studded | first = Kevin |last =Sessums | date =Nov 1, 1990 |publisher =Vanity Fair}}</ref>}} In an interview with USA Today in 2008, Cher was reported as saying: :"I was sick a long time," she says. "I went to Germany for some medicine and treatment. They have things overseas we never dreamed existed. When I was first diagnosed in the late '80s, I had doctors telling me [[Psychologization|I was crazy]]. I was sick constantly and almost died from pneumonia. You never lose it, and it really takes the life out of you."<ref>{{Cite web | title = Cher shares: Life, love, tattoos, politics|publisher =USA TODAYย | first = Edna |last = Gundersen | date =Feb 6, 2008 | url = https://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-on-love-tattoos-politics-paparazzi-and-vegas/}}</ref> In 2007, Cher suffered from another debilitating bout of [[Epstein-Barr virus]], but recovered.<ref>{{Cite news | date = Oct 30, 2008|publisher =Today|via=Access Hollywood|url = https://www.today.com/today/amp/wbna27463111 | title = Contrary to rumors, Cher is doing just fine}}</ref> When asked in a BBC interview if she thought the illness was psychosomatic, Cher replied, "My experience was that it was really a physical illness โ but it does make you [[depression|depressed]] as well ... Boy, it was devastating for me."<ref>[http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=19057 Prohealth - 10 Celebrities with ME/CFS]</ref><ref>{{Cite web | via=Cher World | date = December 8, 2000 | publisher =BBC | title = BBC Live Chat transcript | url = https://www.cherworld.com/cher-interviews/bbc-live-chat/}}</ref>
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