In her ultimate years, Tina Turner nonetheless suffered PTSD from the trauma she endured together with her first husband Ike Turner, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
On Wednesday, on the age of 83, the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll died at her house in Switzerland, the place she lived as a Swiss citizen since 2013.
Whereas Ike and Tina divorced in 1978, the legendary singer struggled with the lingering results of home abuse till her dying.
Two years earlier than her passing, then-81-year-old Tina addressed the horrors she skilled whereas married to Ike.
Regardless of affected by declining well being after a stroke, a battle with most cancers and kidney failure, Tina discovered the energy to open up about her notorious ex-husband within the HBO documentary, Tina.
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“It wasn’t a very good life,” Tina stated of her marriage to Ike. “The nice didn’t stability the unhealthy.”
The Proud Mary singer bluntly added, “I had an abusive life, there is no different solution to inform the story!”
The trauma flashbacks inflicted from her marriage to Ike grew to become so heavy, that Tina shockingly confessed she thought of ending her life.
Though she by no means went by way of with it, Tina confronted well being woes that just about introduced her to the identical destiny.
In Switzerland, the place Tina lived on the time with husband Erwin Bach, 65, medical assisted suicide was authorized.
Tina defined what precisely drove her to think about the controversial end-of-life care plan after a collection of scares.
“I used to be surviving, however not dwelling,” Tina admitted. “I started to consider dying. If my kidneys had been going and it was time for me to die, I may settle for that.”
Tina’s widower, who donated a kidney to his bride in 2017, revealed that even in her eighties, Tina nonetheless skilled nightmares about Ike from abuse-fueled flashbacks.
“It is like when troopers come again from conflict,” Bach stated of Tina’s evening terrors.
Tina informed Folks in 2018 that her ex-husband, who denied abuse studies in earlier years, “wasn’t somebody you would forgive and permit him again in.”
Ike subjected Tina to bodily beatings and psychological torture till she filed for divorce in 1976. Ike died aged 76 in 2007 from an overdose.