Tina Turner as soon as turned to Cher for recommendation on escape her abusive marriage to Ike Turner, the “Consider” icon spills in her memoir.
In “Cher: The Memoir, Half 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, “Inform me the way 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 checked out her and instructed her, ‘I simply walked out and saved 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 by way of it too, leaving her husband, Desi Arnaz.
Tina ultimately 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 e book “Tina Turner: My Love Story.”
