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As it turns out, Cher had a real impact on Simmons right from their first meeting.

The pair hit it off and Simmons drove her home.

Gene Simmons and Cher on a date in 1979

“That’s when he blurted out that he loved me.

We hadn’t even kissed.

While things didn’t click immediately for the pair, destiny had other plans.

Cher at an Oscars gala in 1980

“I’m going through a very liberated phase right now,” Cher told the publication.

“I think I have a very masculine attitude to dating.”

She’s my first love.”

However, it seems that things began to fizzle out later that year.

When the pair met up, there were unexpected sparks, and a romance formed.

Soon enough, they’d begun a romance of their own.