I believe his next life will be easier," she explained. I think that was his goodbye to me, but I didn't realize it at the time.Īccording to Buddhism, you come back to earth and do life again until you get it right. "But during our last talk, he said, 'I just want to hear your voice and that laugh.' He had never said something like that. "At first I didn't believe it, because not long ago, Craig told me, 'Mother, I'm really happy now.' He had a new woman in his life, and he'd just redecorated his apartment," Turner recalled. In a conversation with Oprah Winfrey just weeks after Craig's death last year, Turner spoke about the initial disbelief she had felt upon hearing the news. In 2019, still recovering, her 59 year-old son Craig, committed suicide. She used Dignitas, and was relieved to have the option. ) ( Three years ago, i traveled to Switzerland, to be with my dear friend with progressive MS, when she decided to die with dignity. It gives her peace of mind to have such an organization to turn to. When it’s time, it’s really time.”Īnd she is grateful that she is able to have the choice, on her time table, and at her discretion. If my kidneys were going, and it was time for me to die, I could accept that, it was OK. I couldn’t eat," she recalled in her book three years ago. “ It wasn’t my idea of life but the toxins in my body had started taking over. She joined a Swiss right-to-die, physician aid in dying organization, Exit. “There’s always another test, another doctor’s appointment or biopsy to get through,” adding, “we’re both still here, closer than we ever imagined and that’s cause for celebration.” “I know that my medical adventure is far from over ,” she said in her 2017 memoir Turner Turner: My Love Story. He donated one of his kidneys, which, like their love, was a perfect match. What did Erwin do for the woman he loved? In 2017, after years of taking homeopathic remedies for her high blood pressure, it led to complete kidney failure. The doctors removed a cancerous section of her colon. In 2016, she was diagnosed with intestinal cancer. citizenship.Īnd not three weeks after their marriage….she had a stroke, which rendered her unable to walk or talk.Įrwin was there every second of every day, to aid in her recovery.until she could not just talk, but sing again. Though side-by-side since 1985, they married in 2013, and after having lived in Switzerland for over two decades….it was then that she renounced her U.S. “I still have it … That feeling is still with me. I always refer to it as an electrical charge,” said Bach in the doc. “It’s love - it’s something we both have for each other. Their attraction is more than a simple spark, Bach, 65, added. So unpretentious,” Turner said of first meeting current husband, German music producer Erwin Bach, 27 years ago at an airport. She decided, along with the divorce proceedings….to take her power back.įor all the hell she endured with Ike, she found the polar opposite with German- born music producer Erwin. We know what happened when she met and married Ike Turner.įame, fortune….and daily mental, emotional and physical beatings.Īfter one bloody beat-down in 1976, that was enough. Louis nightclub, Ike’s Rhythm and Blues Band became the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
It was this abuse as a child that may have contributed to her marriage to Ike Turner in 1962, after meeting at a St. I was trying to make her comfortable because she didn’t have a husband, she was alone, but she still didn’t like me.” I did all kinds of things for her, she was my mother. When I became a star, of course back then she was happy because I bought her a house. Tina was born Anna Mae Bullock, and her childhood was filled with misery and poverty and abuse, picking cotton in the fields at a young age in and around Nutbush, Tennessee. It is with this opportunity, that she has decided to say goodbye and thank you to her fans. It is also the last time they plan to return here. For the first time in years, Tina and her husband Erwin Bach, returned to America, the country whose citizenship she willingly gave up, for the Broadway premiere of her stage show, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical.