Inside Tina Turner's heartbreaking health battles - stroke, cancer and 'assisted suicide'
25.05.2023 - 12:17
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Music legend Tina Turner passed away 'peacefully' at her home in Switzerland aged 83 yesterday following a long health battle.
The What's Love Got To Do With It singer's death was confirmed by her team on Instagram who uploaded a black and white photo of the star with a caption which read: "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner.
"With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow. Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her family. Tina, we will miss you dearly."
In one of the US singer's final Instagram posts, she marked International World Kidney Day and urged fans to "Show your kidneys love!" as she admitted she had put herself in "great danger" by ignoring her health issues in the past.
Tina who's birth name was Anna Mae Muller is understood to have received a kidney transplant in 2017 from her beloved husband and had a history of high blood pressure and kidney disease.
However, this is not the only major health scare that the star came face to face with during the course of her life as it is believed that her ignorance towards her severe hypertension is what led to her other illnesses.
She revealed during in a serialisation of her autobiography in the Daily Mail that she 'began to think about death' and even signed up for an assisted suicide group when her health was very poor.
Here we take a closer look at Tina Turner's multiple tragic health battles that she fought over the years.
Turner suffered a stroke in 2013 just three months into her marriage to her second husband Erwin Bach, but her health battles actually
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