Cher Says Tina Turner Asked for Her Advice on How to Leave Ike Turner
Tina Turner as soon as became to Cher for recommendation on the way to departure her abusive marriage to Ike Turner, the “Believe” icon spills in her memoir.
In “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” the singer explains the Turners seemed two times on her TV display she introduced following her tumultuous Sonny Bono breakup — and all through one behind the curtain chat in April 1975, Tina straight-up requested her, “Tell me how you left him.”
Cher unmistakable Tina’s uncooked query got here later she confirmed up in her dressing room, wanting aid to barricade a bruise on her arm.
Moment serving to her, Cher wrote, “I looked at her and told her, ‘I just walked out and kept going.'”
Cher stated Tina’s plea took her again to when she known as Lucille Ball for recommendation on escape Sonny — mentioning Lucy as anyone who were via it too, escape her husband, Desi Arnaz.
Tina in the end filed for dissolution from Ike in 1976, a date then. She then unfolded about their abusive dating in her 1986 memoir “I, Tina” and her 2018 conserve “Tina Turner: My Love Story.”