Why Tina Turner wanted to ‘just go away’ to escape fame

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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.”Years prior to releasing the documentary, the Nutbush, Tennessee, native shockingly exposed Ike’s domestic violence in her 1986 memoir, “I, Tina,” and again in the 1993 biopic, “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” starring Oscar-nominee Angela Bassett. “The story was written so I would no longer have to discuss the issue,” Turner said of her torment. “I don’t love that it’s always talked about.

I made a point of putting the news out … so I could go on with my life,” she added. “But this constant reminder is not so good.

I’m not so happy about it.”In the doc, the “Fool in Love” songstress detailed the physical and sexual battering she underwent for years. “He beat me with a shoe stretcher,” Turner, a mother of four boys, said in featured footage of an interview with People, adding that she was pregnant with her son Ronnie at the time. “After that he made me go to bed and he had sex with me.

I was all swollen. That was the beginning of the torture,” she continued. “It was coat hangers. I had to lay down and he’d stand over me and [slap] this hanger on my fanny,” recalled the singer.