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“What’s Love Got to Do With It” singer Tina Turner didn’t always feel the love from the world.
In fact, being constantly reminded by the public of the savage abuse she endured at the hands of her late ex-husband, Ike Turner, inspired the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll to spend her latter days out of the spotlight.
“When do you, how do you bow out slowly? Just go away?” said Turner, who died Wednesday at age 83, in the 2021 Max documentary “Tina.”
In the doc — which the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer dubbed a bittersweet goodbye to fans — Turner, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, lamented over the unending media headlines about the torture bore during her 16-year marriage to Ike. (Ike Turner died from a drug overdose at 76 in December 2007).
“I wasn’t interested in telling that ridiculously embarrassing story of my life,” said Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock, in the film. “But I felt that’s one way I can get the journalists off my back.
