Why didn’t Tina Turner meet her grandchildren and great-grandchildren? The singer completely distanced herself from her two adopted children in order not to allow them to take advantage of her financially

With the death of Tina Turner on May 24, little-known details from her life that until now have been exposed by the press before the eyes of the world continue to come to light, such as the fact that she had three grandchildren, two of which she did not share and which she did not meet.

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Tina Turner is considered by many to be a rock legend, but despite her fame, her life was marked by some tragedies and family problems that eventually separated her from her four children.

And it is that the interpreter of “I do not want to lose you” had two biological children craig raymond and Ronnie Renelle Turner. But he also adopted two more, Ike Turner Jr. and Michael Turner, that they were the children of her first husband, Ike Turner, and whom she raised as her own.

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Unfortunately, the artist personally experienced the loss of two children who were born from her womb. craig raymond He died in 2018 at the age of 59 after suicide, while Ronnie died in 2022 at the age of 62, as a result of colon cancer, as remembered by Vanidades magazine.

“Ronnie, you left this world too soon. I close my eyes with pain and think of you, my beloved son,” the artist wrote on her Instagram profile saying goodbye to her second son.

From Ike Turner Jr. It is known that he is a music producer and has won a Grammy Award in his career, while Michael leads a more discreet life and is far from the fame that followed his parents.

However, Tina Turner’s relationship with her adopted children broke, and when she divorced Ike Turner, she distanced herself from the boys to whom she once gave all her motherly love.

“Tina raised me since I was two years old. She is the only mother I know. I haven’t talked to my mom since God knows how long, probably around 2000,” Ike Jr. said in an interview with Online mail which he now quotes vanity.

Who are Tina Turner’s grandchildren?

Tina Turner’s second biological son, Ronnie, was married to singer Afida Turner, with whom he had two children, Randy and Raquel Turner, reports La Vanguardia. From them, Raquel gave birth to her children Tyson and Tyrese, who will be the first great-grandchildren of the famous singer.

The Spanish media also looks at the adopted children of the artist who, due to her estrangement, knew very little about her health, and learned about her death from the press. One of them, Michael, had a child that Tina knew nothing about, who is known on Instagram as @queentiffanyturner.

Although Ike Jr and Michael did not know each other’s mother while growing up, their relationship with her changed even more when Tina Turner met Erwin Bach, with whom she went to live in Switzerland and became her husband until the last day of her life.

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“I’ll always be there for them, but I’m not going to let them take advantage of me,” Tina Turner said, referring to not helping her adopted children financially. This was said during the interview he offered TV Week Australia and what a review Vanguard.

Michael is known to have a daughter, Tiffany Turner-Duke, who is a music producer. She would be one of Tina Turner’s grandchildren who gave her three great-grandchildren that she also didn’t know, Marla, Amari and Gianni. (AND)