Legendary singer, Tina Turner, age 78, forgives her abusive ex-husband Ike for the beatings and the violence he subjected her to when alive ‘The Time’ report.
The iconic singer left her bandmate and partner Ike Turner after years of torment and later opened up about her marriage in the book I, Tina, which was turned into the movie What’s Love Got to Do With It? starring Angela Bassett.
“There was violence because he had this fear that I was going to leave him,” Turner says. She revealed she’s not sure she ever truly loved the man who seduced her when she was the teenage singer in his band.
“I felt awful,” she explains. “I didn’t know how to say no because I needed the work. I think I wasn’t educated to handle that.”
Their 14-year marriage was plagued by his affairs and his temper, but 42 years after she left him and launch a solo career, Turner reveals she has forgiven Ike.
“As an old person, I have forgiven him, but it would not work with him,” she adds. “He asked for one more tour with me, and I said, ‘No, absolutely not’. Ike wasn’t someone you could forgive and allow him back in.
“It’s all gone, all forgotten (now). I don’t know what the dreams are about. The dreams are still there – not the violence, the anger. I wonder if I’m still holding something in.”
Turner has since found love with longtime partner Erwin Bach, who she wedded in 2013.
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