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“She thought this (book) would be an opportunity to tell the truth of her relationship with Ike as a means to kind of separate from him.

“We realized that the motivation on Tina’s side was that she was having trouble getting the record industry to disassociate her from Ike,” Lindsay told Vanity Fair. And I find timeless from a storytelling standpoint.” “This idea that her trauma is something that she’s actively continuing to process and she has to make a decision about every day for the betterment of her mental and emotional well-being is something I find really admirable. “Regardless of the era we’re in, it took her, and continues to take a lot of courage for her to kind of wake up and make the decisions to continue to survive,” Martin said. “Tina” very briefly touches on how she wrote “I, Tina” in an effort to stop talking about her relationship with Ike.Īlso Read: 'The United States vs Billie Holiday': Who Was the Real Harry Anslinger? She later went public with the abuse she endured in a 1986 Ebony magazine cover story and her 1986 autobiography “I, Tina,” later adapted into the Oscar-nominated 1993 film “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” Tina’s 16-year relationship with Ike, which left her with severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, ended when she left him in 1976. Much of the details Tina shares in HBO’s “Tina” are known. In “Tina,” Turner says in archival interview footage that Ike’s main weapons for controlling her life, besides his fists were “guilt and fear.” This control - financial, physical, and social - Ike wielded over Tina made it hard for her to leave him, and she says she stayed with him in part because of his outsized influence on her growing music career. What is clear in talking to her is that she is making an active choice every day to continue to survive.” Our life together was defined by abuse and fear.

In meeting Tina early on, we kind of became aware of the complicated relationship she has to her own story…. In her upcoming memoir, legendary artist Tina Turner goes into harrowing detail about the sexual and physical abuse she endured at the hands of her ex-husband, who allegedly burned her, broke her nose, and gave her black eyes. Lindsay told Vanity Fair, “the trauma of abuse doesn’t just go away–that’s something we wanted to communicate with this film….