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Tina Turner Was Open About Her Abuse. Now, Her Legacy Is Saving Survivors
Ruth Glenn remembers the first time she read I, Tina, the powerful 1986 autobiography in which Tina Turner details the extensive abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband, Ike.
Glenn, who read the book when it was first published, was “moved and encouraged” by Tina’s personal accounts; they were particularly momentous because it was at a time when “we weren’t even talking about domestic violence yet.” In the 1980s, this wasn’t something celebrities — or, really, much of anyone — discussed publicly. People didn’t have “the right words” or language to describe it. “Here’s this icon saying: It’s okay to talk about this,” says Glenn. “She broke that barrier.”
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Glenn also recalls thinking, “If this can happen to this beautiful, strong, wonderful Black woman who has all of these things going on for her, it could happen to any of us.”
Six years later, Glenn would leave her own abusive marriage. Fifteen years after I, Tina became a national bestseller, Glenn would read the book again, when it was taught as part of a domestic abuse course she took at the Uni
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Tina Turner Revealed Harrowing Night She Escaped Ike Turner's Abuse: 'I Was Living a Life of Death' (Exclusive)
Tina Turner said she felt like she "didn't exist" when she was married to Ike Turner.
In a bombshell interview with PEOPLE from December 1981, the legendary singer, who died Wednesday after a long illness at age 83, spoke out for the first time about her abusive marriage to Ike and how she escaped it.
"I was living a life of death," Tina said. "I didn't exist. I didn't fear him killing me when I left, because I was already dead. When I walked out, I didn't look back."
She said she felt like "just a shadow" in the mid-1960s during their Ike & Tina Turner Revue success, telling PEOPLE, "Ike took care of everything — the sound, the band, hiring people, management and money" while she was expected to carry out tasks like cooking breakfast for the band at 4 a.m.
Later in their marriage, Tina found strength in studying and practicing Buddhism. But Ike's physical abuse only intensified.
"When Ike saw me chanting," she said, "the veins in his face popped out. He didn't want to hear about anything that would give me power."
Ike could be "very loving," Tina said — but
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Ike and Tina Turner's Noisy Relationship
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