Dear gets candid about her love – and sex – life.

During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show On Wednesday, November 20, the “Believe” singer, 78, explained how she was “crazy in love” Val Kilmer and how he left even though they had “fabulous sex.”

After the host Howard Stern Asked Cher if “guys expect fabulous sex” because she’s “Cher,” the actress/musician replied, “Yes, and they understand.”

She added that she can always tell it’s good “by the reaction.”

Stern, 70, then asked “who would ever leave her,” to which Cher replied: “Few men. Few men. A couple.”

“Listen, I was madly in love with Val Kilmer and he left,” Cher recalls.

“Why would he leave? He’s having fabulous sex with one of the most beautiful women in the world. What’s the problem with that?” » asked the media personality.

“Because you don’t, sometimes you just stay, sometimes you’re only supposed to stay with someone that long and Val was like he was really young,” the “Strong Enough” hitmaker responded. .

Cher and Kilmer, 64, first met in the early 1980s at a birthday party and fell in love.

In August 2021, the Mermaids star open to PEOPLEabout their friendship turned romance and the bond they had in the years that followed.

“We became friends because we were constantly laughing about the same things,” she said. “He was sleeping at our house and it was just a friendship (at first.)

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Cher revealed that their 14-year age difference “was bigger back then.”

“The truth is, if I hadn’t dated younger men, I never would have gone on dates,” she said. “Younger men weren’t intimidated by older women.”

Cher noted that the former couple’s shared “sense of humor” and “what they would put up with each other” was more than she had experienced with anyone else .

“He would go and do whatever he wanted and you just had to be prepared,” she remembers. “And he was so beautiful. It went from crazy love and hysterical laughter to respecting each other’s abilities.