Cher broke her dating rule when Alexander ‘A.E.’ Edwards asked her out: ‘I did what I said not to do!’

Cher said she was "shocked" to get a text from now boyfriend Alexander "A.E." Edwards after they first met a year ago, because "people don't just give out my number."

"It was really shocking, because people just don’t give out my number," the "Believe" singer told People magazine about finding out that a mutual friend had shared her digits with him. 

The 77-year-old added, "I had been telling all my friends, ‘We’re too old to go out with really younger men, and I will never fall in love on text.’ So I did what I said not to do!"