Heartbroken Cher Attends Gregg Allman Funeral

Cher was front and center at the funeral and memorial service for ex-husband Gregg Allman, who died last week at age 69 of liver cancer.

She joined fellow family members, bandmates, friends and fans — including former president Jimmy Carter — for the burial at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia. Hundreds of onlookers sat on the hillside adjacent to the cemetery and watched Allman's casket lowered into the ground. The 71-year-old entertainer married Allman in 1975, having son Elijah Blue Allman in 1976, then officially divorcing three years later.

She took to twitter to pay tribute to his family following the services: "Gregory's children are AMAZING. We Spent hard day, Then went 2 Gregory house. We reminisced & watched [Sun]set. I'm proud of em…THEY'RE ALLMANS."

Allman formed "The Allman Brothers Band" in the late 1960s along with his late brother, Duane, who died tragically at 24 in a motorcycle accident in 1971.Gregg was the band's lead singer and keyboardist, and they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

In his 2012 memoir, "My Cross to Bear," Allman admitted to many years of hard living — overindulging in drugs and alcohol and contracting hepatitis C that ruined his liver and necessitated a transplant to save his life. Allman's final record, to be titled "Southern Blood," is scheduled for a fall release.