{"id":70494,"date":"2023-05-25T03:43:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T03:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/25\/how-tina-turner-overcame-an-abusive-marriage-to-become-one-of-the-most-popular-artists-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T03:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T03:43:18","slug":"how-tina-turner-overcame-an-abusive-marriage-to-become-one-of-the-most-popular-artists-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/25\/how-tina-turner-overcame-an-abusive-marriage-to-become-one-of-the-most-popular-artists-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tina Turner overcame an abusive marriage to become one of the most popular artists of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/22415480-2bcf-4aa6-ab72-25de271bfaa8-1024x576.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American musician Ike Turner (1931 &#8211; 2007) and American singer-songwriter Tina Turner at Heathrow Airport, London, UK, 27th October 1975. (Photo by Frederick R. Bunt\/Evening Standard\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>As Tina Turner has stated in her autobiography and in interviews, physical abuse from her husband Ike Turner began almost from the start of their marriage in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Thin-skinned and mercurial, Ike Turner would fly into fits of rage at the slightest provocation, she said, adding that he would hit her with whatever was available \u2013 coat hangers, telephones, a wooden shoe stretcher, his fists.<\/p>\n<p>Often, she said, he\u2019d even beat her before they went onstage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019d hit me in the ribs, and then always try to give me a black eye. He wanted his abuse to be seen. That was the shameful part,\u201d Turner said in a 2005 interview with Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tina sang lead on most of their songs with the help of female backup singers, while her husband remained in the background, usually on guitar. Their musical partnership yielded a string of R&amp;B hits, including \u201cA Fool In Love,\u201d \u201cNutbush City Limits\u201d and \u201cProud Mary,\u201d their 1971 cover of a Creedence Clearwater Revival song, which reached No. 4 on the pop charts and won them a Grammy.<\/p>\n<p>But offstage their marriage remained tumultuous, fueled in part by Ike Turner\u2019s cocaine addiction.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cAnother night we had a fight in the dressing room, and when I went onstage, my face was swollen,\u201d she told Winfrey. \u201cI think my nose was broken because blood was gushing into my mouth when I sang. Before, I\u2019d been able to hide under makeup. But you can\u2019t hide swelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She stuck with Ike Turner for more than a decade, terrified of his temper and determined not to abandon him like others had.<\/p>\n<p>But things came to a head in\u00a0July 1976\u00a0when they flew to Dallas for a show. Turner wrote in her book that after a flight on the airplane, her husband began hitting her in a car on the way to their hotel. While he slept, she slipped out of their room, carrying only a Mobil credit card and 36 cents \u2013 \u201ca quarter, a dime and a penny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She fled across a busy highway to a motel, where a sympathetic clerk saw her bloodied face and gave her a room. She then called a lawyer she knew, who arranged for a friend to pick her up and put her on an airplane back to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cAfter my plane landed in California, my heart was in my ears. I was afraid Ike would be there because when I\u2019d left once before, he tracked me down on a bus\u2026\u201d she told Oprah. \u201cSo when I got off that plane, I ran like mad. I said to myself, \u2018If he\u2019s here, I\u2019m going to scream for the police. And I had one chant in my head: \u2018I will die before I go back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American musician Ike Turner (1931 &#8211; 2007) and American singer-songwriter Tina Turner at Heathrow Airport, London, UK, 27th October 1975. (Photo by Frederick R. 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