“Once Cher started dating AE, she had far less time for anyone else in her life,” a source said. “Elijah suffered perhaps the most as he’s extremely codependent on his mom and found it very hard when she stopped taking calls and went from talking every day without fail to once or twice a week at best.”
The insider noted that when the smitten songbird initially heeded Edwards’ advice to let Elijah “stand on his own two feet and stop mooching off her.”
That quickly changed, though, when Cher staged the dramatic intervention after Chateau Marmont hotel staff alerted her to Elijah being found passed out outside of the entrance. Cher denied the kidnapping allegations and told People, “That rumor is not true.”