Author: Jennifer Drysdale / Source: Entertainment Tonight
Tina Turner is getting real.
The iconic singer released her first autobiography, I, Tina, in 1986, but there’s more to her story. In her upcoming memoir, My Love Story, Tina shares new details about her marriage to Ike Turner, and reveals she once tried to kill herself in an attempt to escape their tumultuous relationship.
Ike and Tina first met in the late 1950s when he was 25 years old and she was just 17. According to Tina, it didn’t take long before their relationship turned romantic — or abusive. In a previous interview with Spin magazine, Ike said, “Yeah, I hit her, but I didn’t hit her more than the average guy beats his wife… if she says I abused her, maybe I did.”
“First, he was verbally abusive. Then, he picked up a wooden shoe stretcher. Ike knew what he was doing. If you play guitar, you never use your fists in a fight. He used the shoe stretcher to strike me in the head — always the head,” Tina…
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