Ronnie Turner’s cause of decease has been revealed. The youngest lad of stone icon Tina Turner passed away astatine the property of 62 connected Dec. 8 owed to complications owed to colon cancer, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office. He besides suffered from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, per Page Six.
On the aforesaid time the tragic quality broke, Tina issued a statement connected her son’s death. “Ronnie, you near the satellite acold excessively early,” she shared to her Instagram, alongside a achromatic and achromatic photograph of herself with her eyes closed. “In sorrow, I adjacent my eyes and deliberation of you, my beloved son.” Tina had welcomed Ronnie with her ex-husband Ike Turner soon aft the commencement of their archetypal lad Craig, who died by termination successful 2018 astatine 59. Tina had besides adopted 2 of Ike’s children from erstwhile relationships: Ike Jr. and Michael.
On Thursday, paramedics were dispatched to Ronnie’s San Fernando Valley location aft a caller reportedly said that Ronnie was having occupation breathing and past aboriginal stopped breathing, according to TMZ. He was reported dormant connected the scene, arsenic bystanders attempted to execute CPR. Ronnie’s wellness conditions were not clear, but helium had reportedly battled crab successful the past.
Ronnie’s decease was aboriginal confirmed by his woman of 15 years, French vocalist Afida Turner. The star, 45, shared a tribute to her precocious hubby connected Instagram, writing, “My God, Ronnie Turner, a existent angel, immense soul, highly spiritual, my husband, my champion friend, my baby.” She added, “This is simply a tragedy. [You’re] with your member Craig and your begetter Ike… Rest successful paradise.”
Tina’s lad had followed successful her Hollywood footsteps, pursuing his ain vocation successful euphony and dabbling successful acting. Most notably, helium made a cameo arsenic The Revue successful the 1993 biopic astir his ma What’s Love Got To Do With It, which starred Angela Bassett as the “Queen of Rock and Roll” and Laurence Fishburne playing her ex-husband Ike, per IMDb.
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