For Better or Worse: Marieangela King Drops Divorce Again for Elijah Blue Allman

When you marry someone, you promise to love them through sickness and health. But what happens when“sickness”becomes a cycle of arrests, substance abuse struggles, and legal battles that test that vow again and again?

That’s the real question behind Marieangela King’s decision to dismiss her second divorce petition against her husband, Elijah Blue Allman—the 49-year-old son of music icon Cher and the late Gregg Allman. In a declaration filed with a Los Angeles court on June 22, King, 38, opened up about why she’s choosing to stay married despite everything, and her reasoning is equal parts heartbreaking and pragmatic.

King’s first instinct was to leave. After Elijah’s arrests in February and March 2025 following incidents at a private boarding school and residential home in New Hampshire—charges including simple assault, criminal trespassing, and burglary—she filed for divorce in April 2025, citing irreconcilable differences. She was exhausted. She was overwhelmed. Separation seemed like the only rational choice. But then circumstances shifted. Elijah was placed into a structured treatment environment through the New Hampshire court system, and King found herself reconsidering everything. She withdrew her divorce petition on June 8.

The turning point wasn’t a sudden miracle or a dramatic reconciliation. It was clarity. In her filing, King explained that Elijah’s placement in treatment, combined with time to reflect on his current circumstances and recovery prospects, made her reconsider dissolution. She referenced their 2013 wedding vows: I made Elijah a promise that I would be there for him through sickness and in health. That’s not denial of his past struggles, she noted—it’s a belief that decisions about his future should account for his current treatment, support system, and his own wishes.

What makes this story more complex is the conservatorship battle playing out in the background. Cher filed for a second conservatorship petition in April, seeking to place fiduciary Jason Rubin in charge of her son’s finances. A judge denied that request on April 24. Meanwhile, King has been navigating her own financial struggles—she filed court documents asking for help securing spousal support payments that haven’t been made while Elijah was hospitalized. Elijah, for his part, filed to reduce his support payments in May, claiming his mother cut off his financial support and that he’s receiving only $10,000 per month from his father’s trust.

Through it all, King is proposing a structured one-year recovery plan with a fully staffed medical team from a U.S. certified dual diagnostic sober living facility. She’s already begun the process of running their insurance through the facility’s administration so Elijah can have a smooth transition upon his release from New Hampshire. It’s not romantic. It’s not the reconciliation story Hollywood usually tells. It’s a woman who married someone, promised to stand by him, and is trying to honor that promise while also being brutally honest about what recovery actually looks like. Whether that’s enough to sustain a marriage tested this many times remains to be seen.