Renowned for her electrifying stage presence and powerful voice, Tina Turner passed away at the age of 83.
Her family announced that she passed away at her residence near Zürich, Switzerland, concluding a battle with series of prolonged illness. Over the years, Turner’s was resilient in bringing her music to fans against the backdrop of serious health challenges, including kidney failure, intestinal cancer, and strokes.
In her autobiography, My Love Story, the What’s Love Got To Do With It hitmaker revealed her struggles with these severe ailments and the impact they had on her life.
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Despite these struggles, Turner remained a symbol of resilience and strength, remembered for her indomitable spirit and her significant impact on the music industry.
Hypertension
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Diagnosed with hypertension in 1978, Tina Turner did not seek treatment, a decision that eventually led to kidney failure.
“I can’t remember ever getting an explanation about what high blood pressure means or how it affects the body. I considered high blood pressure my normal. Hence, I didn’t really try to control it,” Turner stated in an interview with the European Health Kidney Alliance.
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With her health declining, she passionately implored the public to take high blood pressure seriously in the months leading up to her death, candidly sharing that its neglect had severely damaged her kidneys, meaning she was in desperate need of a transplant. She suffered a stroke in 2009 because of her “poorly controlled hypertension” and found out her kidneys had lost 35% of their function, she said.
Turner reluctantly took medication for years afterwards but, convinced the pills made her feel worse, she decided to take a break and try a homeopathic approach. This backfired though, and Turner’s renal disease worsened
Kidney Transplant
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Tina Turner grappled with the debilitating effects of hypertension and the urgent need for a kidney transplant, experiencing fatigue, nausea, and irritability.
Her husband, Bach, stepped up to donate one of his kidneys. Sharing her ordeal with Oprah Winfrey in 2018, Turner said: “When the doctors said, ‘Both kidneys are out,’ I said, ‘I guess it’s my time to go.'”
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She continued, “I was in my 70s… But then Erwin chimed in… ‘I don’t want another partner.’ He was 150% ready to give me his kidney.”
The transplant, while mostly a success, was followed by a rocky recovery. “The months after the transplantation were marked by a never-ending up and down,” she recounted in her memoir, My Love Story.
Rejection scares, hospital visits, and a host of unpleasant symptoms persisted, alongside a regimen of multiple prescriptions.
Cancer and Covid Fears
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2016 hit Tina Turner with a bombshell health blow—intestinal cancer.
in her tell-all memoir, she revealed a gnarly battle with chronic diarrhea before docs informed her she had the deadly disease. She went on to detail months of chronic diarrhea leading up to the discovery in her memoir.
The cancer, in its early stages, was accompanied by carcinoma and multiple malignant polyps. Its complete removal was uncertain and she later had surgery to excise the cancerous tissue in her intestine, postponing her kidney transplant by a year as doctors gauged the potential for a cure.
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The onset of the coronavirus pandemic added another layer of difficulty. “My age and health require that I stay close to home,” Turner told Variety.
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