Tina Turner Took Dark Secret to Her Grave

Legendary singer Tina Turner recently passed away, leaving a significant void in the music industry. Despite her departure, her music will continue to resonate for generations to come. Tina faced numerous challenges throughout her life, and her last days were filled with profound suffering, both mentally and physically. However, it has come to light that Tina harbored a hidden secret, as revealed by her adopted son, which she took to her grave.

From Radar Online: 

Tina Turner's adopted son Ike Jr. claimed that his famous stepmother left behind her family in America after getting a second chance at love with husband Erwin Bach, RadarOnline.com has learned.

The soulful superstar "raised me from the age of two," he said in a statement years before her shock death aged 83 at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, on Wednesday. "She's the only mother I've ever known."

Tina first became a parent at 18 with the birth of her son Craig shared with future husband Ike Turner's former Kings of Rhythm bandmate Raymond Hill.

She would later become stepmother of Ike's two sons, Ike Jr. and Michael, adopting the boys after she wed their father in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1962. The husband-and-wife R&B duo had welcomed a son of their own, Ronnie, two years prior in 1960.

"I haven't talked to my mother since God knows when – probably around 2000. I don't think any of my brothers have talked to her in a long time either," Ike Jr. shared with Daily Mail in 2018. "My mother is living her life – she has a new husband and she's in Europe."

After exiting her abusive and toxic marriage with Ike in 1976, his namesake said that Tina didn't "want to have anything to do with the past" and was eager to move on.

Tina’s son wishes her parents could have reconciled and at least been “friends,” or that she could have forgave him… Can’t say that I blame Tina for not doing that. He put her through a lot of abuse.