Tina Turner Said She Was ‘Ready’ To Die Before Her Passing, Cher Reveals: She ‘Fought’ For So Long

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Tina Turner was friends with Cher for much than 50 years astatine the clip of her decease from an unidentified “long illness” connected May 24. After quality of Tina’s death broke, Cher called successful to The Beat With Ari Melber connected MSNBC to sermon the situation. She revealed that she had started paying regular visits to Tina astatine her location successful Switzerland successful the years earlier her passing.

Cher did not corroborate the unwellness that Tina was suffering from earlier her death, but she did uncover that she had kidney dialysis machines successful her home. The “Simply The Best” vocalist had gotten a kidney transplant from husband Edwin Bach successful 2017. “She fought this sickness for specified a agelong clip and she was truthful strong, arsenic you deliberation she would be,” Cher said.

Tina Turner and Cher successful the 90s. (ITV/Shutterstock)

However, arsenic her information worsened successful caller months, she came to presumption with what was coming. “She told maine once, she said, ‘I’m truly ready. I conscionable don’t privation to enactment up with this anymore,'” Cher shared.

The vocalist besides recalled her archetypal sojourn to Tina’s Switzerland location and said they spent the time “laughing similar crazy,” contempt Tina being sick. “She was truly happy,” Cher confirmed, adding, “She was having a bully clip successful spite of the information that she was truly sick and not wanting radical to cognize astir it.” The past clip Cher saw Tina, she was adjacent talented a brace of “big precocious heels” from the 83-year-old.

Tina Turner performing. (ITV/Shutterstock)

Cher’s relationship with Tina began amidst Tina’s abusive relationship with Ike Turner successful the precocious 60s and 70s. Cher said that they got overmuch person aft Tina near Ike successful 1978. “She mightiness not person won each battle, but she fought each war,” Cher gushed. “She was determination warring for each the things she believed in. She’s 1 of the large artists of our procreation successful stone and roll. There was nary different idiosyncratic similar her.”

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