Proud Mary’s shame.
Tina Turner’s new bang documentary “Tina” is the subject of discussion at HBO on 27 March.
The rock rolls over the river of the star. Reducing the trauma of childhood abandonment and adult abuse in the eyes of people. All this with nothing but his name walking away and walking his way to peace. The “Proud Mary” singer is revealing her truth for the last time in a film, which is being seen as her bittersweet “goodbye” – a reality that jolted social media of fear via her loyal fanbase .
But no, the burgeoning, galvanizing entertainer who left the cotton fields of “Nutbush City Limits” as the “best” isn’t dying – he’s just tired of ending up past traumas for his adorable public.
“I had an abusive life with me,” said 81-year-old Turner in Academy Award-winning director Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin’s upcoming film. “There is no other way to tell the story. This is a reality. A fact. “
And yes, “Tina” retraces the music icon’s drastic strides through childhood neglect and domestic violence, sexual abuse and suicide attempts, which she survived for ex-husband Ike Turner after her 16-year marriage.
Turner’s black eyes, cracked lips and numerous other physical wounds have long been healed since he left Ike in 1976 after one last bloody beating – but Emotional scars Whenever the name of his abuser is told, the sorrowful suffering reopens.
Even decades after surviving his toxic marriage – and surviving a stroke, cancer, organ transplant and suicide of a child – one of the world’s most beloved music artists, cannot escape the inquiring minds of the public. and it hurts.
Filmmaker Martin told The Post, 41, “Every time he is asked to retell his story, because it can be beneficial for other people to listen and be empowered.”
Martin and Lindsay’s documentary, not only Tear but a story of Victory, features archival footage of never-before-seen interviews and intimate confidences from Turner – notably, during an interview with People magazine in 1981, Ike Audio from his first public conversation about his misbehavior. .
Regarding the post, Lindsay explained, “His motivation to come forward about the truth of his time with Ike was an attempt to free himself.” “But ironically, it connects him with her in such a way that he can never escape.”
Tied to a promise to never leave Ike – a vow of the pain he felt after leaving as a child at a cotton farm in Nutbush, Tennessee, by unlocking parents – Turner, Ana Mae in 1939 The birth of Bullock endured what he described. As persistent cruelty.
After becoming a lead singer of Ike’s Rhythm and Blues Band after a chance meeting at a St. Louis nightclub in 1957, their professional relationship as Ike and Tina Turner Review turned into a troubled romance.
“He beat me with a shoe stretcher,” Turner said of one of Ike’s first acts of abuse. She was pregnant with her son Ronnie at the time.
“He then forced me to go to bed and he had sex with me,” she recalled. “He is Beginning of torture. I had to lie down and stand on top of me and [slap] This coat hangs over my fanny. I swear to God. My fanny grew 2 inches high. “
Soon after the sexual violence, which she said became a constant after she married in 1962, Turner claimed Ike would force her to perform.
“He forced me to go back on stage and say, ‘You mother Ch – – – er because you made me do it.” “
Ike – a skilled musician and lyricist credited for composing the first rock ‘n’ roll song in 1951, “Rocket 88” – in the documentary former band member Jimmy Thomas said he wanted to control Turner .
Throughout the film, Lindsay and Martin commented deeply on Turner’s life and the legacy of Thomas, her beloved second husband Irwin Bach, and MTV’s Kurt Lauder, who co-wrote his 1985 autobiography. “I, Tina.” Also featured: Golden Globe winning actress Angela Bassett who won an Oscar award as Turner in the 1993 biopic “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” And the talk show Oprah Winfrey.
The documentary is indeed Turner’s final farewell.
“The spotlight is not interesting anymore for him,” Martin told The Post. “She worked for 60 years – and now carries it over and over again, reminding her of her previous trauma.”
Still, “Tina” tells the whole story: After divorcing Ike in 1978 – nothing but her marriage and moving away from the music empire, but her stage name – Turner called herself a Grammy Award-winning rock ‘ Remade herself at an age as the N ‘Roll Queen. Most artists are kept in the pasture.
As a middle-aged woman bordering the 80s and 90s, she skyrocketed to the charts with the hits “What Love Got to Do with It,” “Private Dancer” and “The Best”.
Turner also set a Guinness World Record for organizing the biggest rock concert by a soloist, receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, producing a Broadway musical based on her life, and joining the Rock and Roll Hall in 2021 Is a nominee of. Fame.
He also got the love of his life.
“He was just so different. So put it back. Very comfortable. So sensible, ”Turner said of her first meeting with German music producer Erwin Bach, the current husband at an airport 27 years ago. “I really needed love.” I just needed to love a person. “
The 65-year-old Bach stated that his attraction is more than an ordinary spark.
“This is love – this is something we both do for each other. I always refer to it as an electric charge, ”Bach said in the doctor. “I still have it … this feeling is still with me. It’s in my heart,”
However, despite his resounding success as a solo artist and enduring love with Bach, Turner is still unable to escape from Ike’s shadow.
“this [film] His way of saying to the world once and for all is, ‘These are pieces [of my story] That I am leaving. Now let me go, ” Lindsey said.
Turner survived in 2013, intestinal cancer in 2017 (the same year her husband donated a kidney to save her life) The loss His 59-year-old son Craig, Who shot himself In 2018. Although she still struggles with a form of post traumatic stress disorder due to physical and sexual cruelty, she forgave Ike for her death in 2007 from a cocaine overdose. She was 76 years old.
“It hurts to miss that time,” Turner, who now lives in Zurich, admitted to the film. “But at a certain level, forgiveness is right.
“To forgive means not to bear.” You let it go because by not forgiving – it hurts you. “
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