Cher’s troubled son Elijah Blue Allman is back at rock bottom after a recent string of arrests in New Hampshire — and it’s tearing the poor “Strong Enough” singer, 79, apart, a source tells the National Enquirer.
The 49-year-old, who has long struggled with substance abuse, was picked up by Concord police on Friday, February 27, for assault and trespass, according to TMZ, after they responded to a call about a man “causing a disturbance and acting belligerently” at a prep school.
Just two days later, Allman was back behind bars for allegedly breaking into a home in Windham. He was charged with burglary, two counts of criminal mischief and breach of bail, per People, and held on preventative detention.
“Cher’s tried everything to try and help Elijah down the years, from putting him through rehab and giving him a home of his own to trying the tough love approach and icing him out in the hope it would shake some sense to him,” the source laments. “As everyone can see, it’s turned into a total disaster.”
Allman, whose late father Gregg Allman also battled addiction, is “blazing a path of total self-destruction,” frets the source. “Everyone, including his mom, is well aware that his life is in major danger but there’s nothing they can really do about it.”
That being said, the Goddess of Pop isn’t ready to give up on him just yet.
“Right now, she’s weighing the pros and cons of yet another intervention, which Elijah will only fight,” admits the source, adding that for all of his demons, “he’s still her first-born son and she loves him.”