Tina Turner struggled with tragedies in her life: her mother never loved her and abandoned her at the age of 11, and she faced the bitter pain of the death of her two children, one by suicide and one by cancer.

Behind the rock legend Tina Turner are hidden endless dramatic stories that followed her throughout her 83 years. Despite becoming a musical icon from an early age, the Brownsville, Tennessee-born, real name Anna Mae Bullock, lived through several tragedies that marked her life.

After her death was announced in Switzerland on May 24th, after a long illness, the press began to deal closely with the difficulties the artist went through since childhood and the devastating blows she experienced with the death of two of her four children.

Tina Turner began to reap her fame in the 70s, with the duo Ike and Tina Turner, which she decided to form together with her first husband, Ike Turner, not realizing that before consolidating an incredible solo career, she would go through an abusive marriage.

The translator at a very young age suffered blows that caused her multiple fractures, her husband’s manipulations and a close encounter with death when she tried to commit suicide by taking 50 sleeping pills, Mail Online reminds.

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“At my lowest point, I convinced myself that death was my only way out. In fact, I tried to commit suicide,” he said in one of his memoirs.

Despite the mistreatment she experienced, her sons Craig Turner and Ronnie Turner were born from that union, who completed the family picture with Ike Turner Jr.

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Finally, after years of bullying, she found the courage to part ways with Ike in 1976 and was left in ruins. Then he started out on his own and became an artist who is considered a legend today.

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey she admitted that she is a strong woman who survived a divorce and also never smoked, drank alcohol or tried drugs.

That strength was undermined many years later when tragedy knocked on his door in 2018 with the death of his eldest son, Craig, who committed suicide.

“I think Craig was alone, that’s what really got to him more than anything else,” he said Gayle King on CBS about the death of her first child.

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In 2022, Ronnie also lost at just 62 years old. After his death, it was revealed that the cause of death was related to colon cancer, which was discovered three weeks before his death. When the disease was discovered, it was already in the fourth stage.

Before tragedy marked her life with the loss of two children, Turner was familiar with the hardships of life from an early age.

He had already lived through the experience he had with Ike in his mother Zelma Priscilla’s marriage to Floyd Richard Bullock.

Zelma eventually left the family when Tina was barely 11 years old, because she “didn’t love her”, and three years later she was faced with the abandonment of her father, whom she was not close to and was afraid of, according to the British media, which the same artist stated in his autobiography.

“She didn’t love me. And I knew the difference, because I used to see her with my sister Alline, how she was with her, and then with me. I loved Alline,” he told Rolling Stone magazine in 1986, and this is how Mail Online remembers him in this new retrospective of his life.

Other difficulties were added to his life story, such as the health problems he faced. A stroke in 2013 and then a cancer diagnosis in 2016 marked tense episodes in which he again faced the destruction of his life. (AND)