Tina turner domestic violence biography

This article contains descriptions of domestic violence which some readers may find distressing. When Tina Turner first spoke out about the violence she endured during her marriage to Ike Turner, it was an act of bravery to expose herself so publicly.

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Tina's scorching description of their marriage included being made to watch a live sex show in a brothel on their wedding night, and being beaten with a shoe stretcher while she was pregnant. She also spoke about Ike throwing scalding coffee at her, and of being brutalised with a coat hanger. In , she tried to take her own life. Ike Turner, who died in , always denied his ex-wife's claims that he abused her, and expressed frustration that he had been demonised in the media.

The couple met when Tina was just 17, after she saw his group Kings of Rhythm perform, and asked him to hear her sing. Not surprisingly, he spotted her star quality, making her his lead singer, choosing her stage name and lavishing her with clothes and jewellery. They married in , and Tina, who had already experienced the pain of being rejected as a child by her mother, promised Ike she "wouldn't leave him" - something she later came to regret.

I was sitting there all bruised and torn, and all of a sudden I'm feeling sorry for him. She could no longer put up with the "torture" of being married to him, and the impact it had on their four sons. I didn't exist," she said. And when I walked out, I walked. And I didn't look back. Tina moved away, and had to rebuild her career, making money by singing in Las Vegas and appearing on various TV shows.

She decided to tell all in the interview, to expel some of the ghosts from her past. In Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin's documentary Tina , the singer said she was so nervous about doing the interview that she asked her psychic if it would ruin her career.