The Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0she died from natural causes at home in K\u00fcsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.<\/p>\nET confirmed that Turner\u00a0died peacefully\u00a0on Wednesday after a long illness. She was 83.\u00a0Turner\u2019s verified Instagram account also posted a statement confirming the tragic news.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner. With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow,\u201d the statement read. \u201cToday we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her family. Tina, we will miss you dearly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two months before her tragic death, Turner shared on her Instagram page that\u00a0she regretted not taking care of her kidneys\u00a0sooner. In the March 9 post, Turner told her followers that she put herself in \u201cgreat danger\u201d by not\u00a0receiving medical care for her high blood pressure.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday is International World Kidney Day. Why is it important? Because kidneys fail without pain. And that\u2019s why I\u2019m telling you today: Show your kidneys love! They deserve it. My kidneys are victims of my not realising that my high blood pressure should have been treated with conventional medicine,\u201d Turner wrote in honour of International World Kidney Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have put myself in great danger by refusing to face the reality that I need daily, lifelong therapy with medication. For far too long I believed that my body was an untouchable and indestructible bastion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turner then directed fans to\u00a0a website\u00a0where they could learn more about her story, one that involved dialysis, and eventually a kidney donation from her husband, Erwin Bach, to save her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Turner\u2019s\u00a0health struggles\u00a0have been well documented. She suffered a stroke\u00a0in 2013, just weeks after she married Bach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I came back from my honeymoon, I was determined to find out what was causing a painful feeling in my chest,\u201d\u00a0she told Oprah Winfrey\u00a0in a 2018 interview. \u201cI went to the hospital, and two days later, the stroke came. That was the beginning of the sickness.\u201d<\/p>\n
In her 2018 memoir,\u00a0My Love Story<\/em>, Turner revealed that the stroke delivered such a \u201cpowerful blow\u201d to the body that she \u201cwould have to work with a physiotherapist to learn how to walk again.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIn the hospital, I didn\u2019t believe that I couldn\u2019t walk,\u201d she told Winfrey. \u201cI said, \u2018Bull crap.\u2019 Then I stepped out of bed and flopped to the floor and said, \u2018Oh my God, what have I done?\u2019 But I wasn\u2019t depressed \u2014 I was just determined to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turner was diagnosed with intestinal cancer in 2016, and when doctors told her that both of her kidneys were failing, the singer said she didn\u2019t become depressed. Instead, she resigned to the idea that her time had come.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the doctors said, \u2018Both kidneys are out,\u2019 I said, \u2018I guess it\u2019s my time to go,’\u201d Turner told Winfrey. \u201cI was in my 70s. In my thinking, I\u2019d lived long enough, and I didn\u2019t want to be on a machine for the rest of my life. My mother and sister were both gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
urner\u2019s kidneys were functioning at only 20 percent. Things looked so dire, Turner wrote in her memoir, she pondered the idea of assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland. When it seemed like there was no hope, Bach swooped in just in time to save her life. Turner wrote in\u00a0My Love Story<\/em>\u00a0that she was \u201cshocked\u201d Bach would give up one of his kidneys.<\/p>\n\u201cI wondered if anyone would think that Erwin\u2019s living donation was transactional in some way,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIncredibly, considering how long we had been together, there were still people who wanted to believe that Erwin married me for my money and fame. What else would a younger man want with an older woman? Erin always ignored the rumors.\u201d<\/p>\n
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