Singer P.P. Arnold Claims She Was Trapped In A Room And Raped By Ike Turner In The 1960s
etcanada.comWARNING: This article deals with sensitive subject matter. P.P. Arnold claims she was raped by Ike Turner in her candid new memoir Soul Survivor.
The soul singer, who began her career as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1965, told the Telegraph that Turner once trapped her in a room and raped her in the mid ’60s.
She said of the incident involving Ike, who passed away in 2007 at age 76: “What can I say? It was awful. I despised Ike on that level, but I didn’t know how to express myself,” People reported.
Arnold, 75, added of Turner’s then-wife Tina: “I was told Tina wanted to get rid of me because Ike was after me. “If I had run to Tina or called my parents, it would have meant I would have [had] to come home.” She explained how returning home would have meant returning to her violent husband David, whom she was forced to marry after a failed attempted abortion.
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