CHER MAKES ULTIMATE SACRIFICE TO SAVE SON!

SACRIFICE TO Devoted mom gives up lover to focus on Elijah’s drug problem

HEARTBROKEN Cher is so desperate to save her junkie son Elijah Blue Allman, sources say she’s chucked her romance with 37-year-old stud Alexander “A.E.” Edwards to focus totally on her troubled kid — and it’s thrown her into a painful emotional tailspin, leaving pals fearing for the 77-year old songbird’s health.

Cher reluctantly broke off her affair with the music exec and begged a judge to put her 47-year-old child with the late rock icon Gregg Allman in conservatorship with his life and finances under her full custody and control.

But sources snitch the heartrending choice has plunged the Moonstruck Oscar winner into emotional free fall over being forced to choose between A.E. and Elijah, who hates his mother’s younger lover.

“Elijah refused to cooperate unless she gave A.E. the boot, and she agreed, though it came at a precious cost to her own sanity,” spills an insider.

Now sources snitch the Believe singer — who has suffered from panic attacks, insomnia and chronic depression for years — is teetering on the brink as she frantically organizes a conservatorship for her troubled offspring.