Cher reveals Tina Turner came to her for help over abusive relationship
Written by worldOneFm on November 22, 2024
Cher has revealed that Tina Turner turned to her for help while struggling in an abusive relationship.
Late singer Turner, who passed away in May last year at the age of 83, was famously abused by vicious ex-husband Ike.
In her memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the Strong Enough singer recounts helping The Best singer in the late 1970s.
Cher wrote, per the Daily Mail, “One of the days we were shooting, she came to my room before we went on asking if I had some cover-up. She had a bruise on her arm she didn’t want showing on camera. I told her I had something that would work.”
She recalls that Turner asked her how she left her own husband, Sonny Bono, whom she married in 1969 and divorced in 1975.
The If I Could Turn Back Time singer wrote, “I looked at her and told her, ‘I just walked out and kept on going.'”
Cher recounted how Turner’s plea reminded her of how she had asked Lucille Ball for advice on leaving Bono.
She recalled, “I called Lucille Ball to ask for her advice. I told her, ‘Lucy, I want to leave Sonny and you’re the only one I know that’s ever been in this same situation. What should I do?’
Turner was married to Ike in 1962 and eventually divorced him in 1978 and recounted in her own autobiography that she walked to a hotel one night after he beat her and never returned to him.
