For Tina Turner and many other celebrities, it is incredibly surprising how we think we know who celebrities are because we only see their success, and we don’t see what it took for them to get there.
Tina Turner’s movie, ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It,’ which pertains to her marriage to the very abusive Ike Turner, came out in early 1993 and represented what
I actually saw Ike Turner coming out of a 7-Eleven in the valley of Los Angeles and was surprised at how people treated him like he was a huge star. He reveled in every bit of it. He admitted in an interview that Tina had not spoken to him in over 30 years. I had the chance to watch Tina’s 2021 documentary on HBO Max, ‘Tina,’ recently, where
Her mother appears briefly in the ‘Tina’ movie, and it’s quite evident that There is a segment where Tina breaks down while talking about how
This is the total opposite of who Tina” was released in 1983. In the movie, her manager explains that the label didn’t want to take a chance on “that old Nigger bitch,” as a record executive said, but he convinced them to take a chance on her, and it worked. What is also surprising is that Tina was not a big fan of the movie “What’s Love Got to Do with It.” It’s evident when Angela Bassett, who is sitting right next to her. 
