Tina Turner’s relationship with Ike: How she broke free and defied abusive ex-husband

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Tina Turner rose to fame alongside her ex-husband, Ike Turner, in what seemed to be a musical match made in heaven. But it wasn’t until Turner fled the couple's hotel room in 1976 and later revealed the reality of their relationship in a bombshell 1981 interview that the world knew about the toxic marriage the musical icon had survived. "It was my relationship with Ike that made me most unhappy.

At first, I had really been in love with him. Look what he'd done for me. But he was totally unpredictable," Turner wrote in her 1986 autobiography, "I, Tina." After escaping the relationship, Turner went on to define herself as a solo artist and the Queen of Rock and Roll.

But the journey wasn’t an easy one. Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock, met Ike when she was a 16-year-old still in high school, and he was the leader of Kings of Rhythm, one of the first groups to introduce rock n’roll to the world with their song "Rocket 88." The young Turner sang B.B.

King’s "You Know I Love You," at a St. Louis nightclub, impressing Ike with her voice, and she quickly joined the group. Their relationship remained platonic from 1957 to 1960, when they began an affair while Ike was still with his live-in girlfriend Lorraine Taylor.