Tina Turner as soon as turned to Cher for recommendation on learn how to escape her abusive marriage to Ike Turner, the “Believe” icon spills in her memoir.
In “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” the singer explains the Turners appeared twice on her TV present she launched following her tumultuous Sonny Bono breakup — and through one backstage chat in April 1975, Tina straight-up requested her, “Tell me how you left him.”
Cher revealed Tina’s uncooked query got here after she confirmed up in her dressing room, needing assist to cowl a bruise on her arm.
Whereas serving to her, Cher wrote, “I looked at her and told her, ‘I just walked out and kept going.'”
Cher mentioned Tina’s plea took her again to when she known as Lucille Ball for recommendation on leaving Sonny — citing Lucy as somebody who had been via it too, leaving her husband, Desi Arnaz.
Tina finally filed for divorce from Ike in 1976, a 12 months later. She later opened up about their abusive relationship in her 1986 memoir “I, Tina” and her 2018 guide “Tina Turner: My Love Story.”
