Chaz Bono appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” yesterday and discussed the conflict with his mother Cher over his tomboy childhood and later sex change. “I completely understand why it must have been difficult. You have this expectation of your baby girl and how that’s going to be, and I didn’t act anything like she probably imagined,” he told Oprah.
Once Bono told Cher that he was going to transition from female to male, the two tried counseling, which failed. “I just realized that she was really having a hard time with all of this,” he said. “The hard thing for my mom, I think, is that because she’s a public figure and because she has this personality of kind of being so cool about stuff and progressive, people forget that she’s a parent.”
The two didn’t speak for months. In an interview for the documentary, “Becoming Chaz,” Cher said she was nervous about not recognizing her child. “At some point I’m going have to start calling her him. At some point I guess I will, but it just doesn’t seem comfortable yet,” Cher said. But Bono told Oprah his mother is “moving in the right direction.” She sent him a text that said “Chaz” instead of his former nickname. “I’m proud of her for dealing with this and really making an effort,” Bono said.
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