Earlier than she died, the What’s Love Received to Do With it singer detailed the violent horrors she suffered whereas married to Ike Sr.
Tina recalled in her 2018 autobiography, My Love Story, that Ike Sr. was a serial cheater, and his temperamental methods grew as he abused medication.
“Intercourse with Ike had turn out to be an expression of hostility – a form of rape – particularly when it started or ended with a beating,” she alleged. “What had been ugly and hateful between us earlier than grew to become worse with each snort of cocaine.”
Throughout the pages, Tina recounted a few of her darkest occasions, detailing an occasion when Ike Sr. allegedly threw sizzling espresso in her face, which gave her third-degree burns.
“He used my nostril as a punching bag so many occasions that I might style blood operating down my throat once I sang,” she wrote about the way it not solely impacted her bodily well-being, but additionally her profession and psychological well being. “He broke my jaw. And I could not keep in mind what it was like to not have a black eye.”