Tina Turner no longer wants to relive her pain for her fans, documentary directors have shared today.
Directors of ‘Tina’, Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin spoke to the New York Post about the difficulty that Tina experienced making the film and how she is ready to let go.
The upcoming HBO documentary will go back through Tina’s early childhood in Nutbush, to her life today and features the 81-year-old telling her private story for the first time.
Reliving her abusive marriage to Ike, cancer, a stroke and the suicide of her child reportedly caused the global superstar tremendous pain.
TJ explained: “Every time she’s asked to re-tell her story, as beneficial as it may be for other people to hear and be empowered by, it can be extremely painful and re-traumatizing for her.”
“Her motivation for coming forward about the truth of her time with Ike was about trying to free herself from him,” said Dan.
“But the irony is that it just connected her to him in a way that she could never escape.”
The raw documentary features childhood footage, intimate confessionals from Tina and never seen before video clips of behind the scenes of her legendary stage career.
In the trailer for the doc Tina says: “It wasn’t a good life, the good did not balance the bad.
“I had an abusive life, there’s no other way to tell the story, it’s a reality, it’s the truth, that’s what you’ve got, so you have to accept it.”
She goes on to add: “Some people say the life that I lived and the performances that I gave, the appreciation, is blasting with the people. And yeah, I should be proud of that. I am.
“But when do you stop being proud? I mean, when do you, how do you bow out slowly? Just go away?”
“The spotlight is not interesting to her anymore. She worked for 60 years — and now she’s done with being repeatedly reminded of her past trauma,” TJ shared.
Dan clarified: “This [film] is her way of saying to the world once and for all, ‘These are the pieces [of my story] that I’m leaving. Now let me go.’”
Tina says in the film: “It hurts to have to remember those times. “But at a certain stage, forgiveness takes over.
“Forgiving means not to hold on. You let it go because by not forgiving — you suffer.”
Tina now lives in Zurich with the man she eventually found love with, Erwin Bach, 65
Describing their first meeting Tina said: “He was just so different. So laid back. So comfortable. So unpretentious.
“I really needed love. I just needed to love a person.”
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“It’s love — it’s something we both have for each other. I always refer to it as an electrical charge,” said Erwin in the documentary.
“I still have it … That feeling is still with me. It’s in my heart.”
During the documentary, the couple prepares for a trip to New York to attend the Broadway premiere of the production, The Tina Turner Story.
Erwin emphasises this is Tina’s farewell, revealing: “She said, ‘I’m going to America to say goodbye to my American fans and I’ll wrap it up’.
“And I think this documentary and the play, this is it – it’s a closure.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
