Tina Turner Stated That Her And Her Children Were' Scarred In Different Ways' By Ex-Husband Ike's Domestic Abuse

Tina Turner’s ex-husband Ike Turner abused her for years, and it had a long-term impact on her and their children.

The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll reminisced on her romance with Ike in her 2018 biography My Love Story: Tina Turner.

“We were away from the house more than we were there,” she wrote of her family (Craig, Ike Jr., Michael, and Ronnie were Tina and Ike’s four sons).

But when everyone was present, she writes, Ike’s harshness exacerbated the situation.

The children “saw my black eyes and heard our endless fighting… I knew it would make an impression on them, and it did,” Tina wrote. “Ike’s behavior scarred us in different ways.”

In December 1981, the “Proud Mary” singer, who died on May 24 at the age of 83 after a protracted illness, spoke up for the first time about her terrible marriage to Ike and how she escaped it.

“I was living a life of death,” Tina admitted at the time. “I didn’t even exist. I didn’t have to worry about him killing me when I left since I was already dead. I didn’t look back as I walked away.”

The eight-time Grammy winner and Ike, who died in December 2007 of a drug overdose, married in 1962 and divorced 16 years later. After 27 years together, she married her second husband, Erwin Bach, in 2013.

Tina escaped Ike on July 1, 1976, while the two were on tour at the Statler Hilton in Dallas. Ike beat Tina “the entire way from the airport to the hotel,” Tina told PEOPLE. “By the time we got to the hotel, my left side of my face was swollen like a monster’s.”

“I massaged him and cooed, ‘Can I order you any food, dear?'” Tina recounted at the hotel. Then he made the error of falling asleep.” Tina fled across the motorway in the middle of the night to another motel with only 36 cents in her pocket and a Mobil credit card in her wallet.

A friend gave her a plane ticket back to Los Angeles, where she could get out of Ike’s life. “I felt proud,” Tina said, according to a source. “I felt very strong.”

Her children were also affected by the pressure in their mother-daughter relationship. Tina, a 2021 HBO documentary, featured a 2000 interview with Craig, who died by suicide in 2018.

“She really took to raising us personally because that was basically her happiness to a certain extent,” he explained.

Tina told Oprah Magazine in 2005 that Craig was a “very emotional kid” who reacted depressedly to his parents’ tumultuous marriage. “He’d always look down in sadness,” she said of her kid to Oprah Winfrey.

After Tina and Ike divorced, the singer insisted on not working with her stepson Ike Jr., who had his own musical career.

Following Tina’s divorce from Ike Sr., who wanted his son and ex to discontinue their professional relationship, he briefly worked as her sound engineer. “When my mother and father separated, he did not want me working with her — and he beat me in the head with a nickel-plated.45 pistol,” Ike Jr. claimed.

Ike Jr. stated in 2018 that he hadn’t spoken to Tina in over a decade. “I haven’t talked to my mother since God knows when — probably around 2000,” he admitted to the Mail. “My mother is enjoying her life; she has a new husband and is traveling in Europe.” She doesn’t want to be associated with the past.”

Ronnie died of colon cancer in December of last year, at the age of 62. Meanwhile, Ike Jr. informed Bobby Eaton in 2017 that Michael was in a wheelchair and had suffered “several strokes and seizures.”Her children were also affected by the pressure in their mother-daughter relationship. Tina, a 2021 HBO documentary, featured a 2000 interview with Craig, who died by suicide in 2018.

“She really took to raising us personally because that was basically her happiness to a certain extent,” he explained.

Tina Turner credited David Bowie with saving her career following her ‘abusive’ marriage to Ike Turner.
Tina told Oprah Magazine in 2005 that Craig was a “very emotional kid” who reacted depressedly to his parents’ tumultuous marriage. “He’d always look down in sadness,” she said of her kid to Oprah Winfrey.

After Tina and Ike divorced, the singer insisted on not working with her stepson Ike Jr., who had his own musical career.

Tina Turner Stated That Her And Her Children Were’ Scarred In Different Ways’ By Ex-Husband Ike’s Domestic Abuse

Tina Turner’s ex-husband Ike Turner abused her for years, and it had a long-term impact on her and their children.

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