died Wednesday at the age of 83, secretly endured 16 years of physical abuse at the hands of her husband — prompting a suicide attempt and leaving her with “nightmares” that lasted the rest of her life.
The diva didn’t disclose the domestic abuse until 1981 — five years after she filed for divorce — bravely speaking out at a time when women rarely revealed that they had been victims of violence at the hands of their husbands. “I was living a life of death,” Tina told People magazine in a bombshell interview in November of that year. “I didn’t fear him [Ike] killing me when I left, because I was already dead.
When I walked out, I didn’t look back.”In her 1986 autobiography, “I, Tina,” the superstar further wrote: “He [Ike] threw hot coffee in my face, giving me third-degree burns.
He used my nose as a punching bag so many times that I could taste blood running down my throat when I sang. He broke my jaw.
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