Tina Turner’s stroke hit her like a “lightning bolt” and robbed her of her voice. The late ‘What’s Love Go to Do With It’ singer’s death was announced on 24 May after she had spent years battling potentially fatal illnesses including kidney issues that ended with her husband Erwin Bach, 67, donating one of his kidneys in a transplant operation in 2017.
Tina said in her tell-all memoir ‘My Love Story’ about how her stroke hit in 2013, the same year she married music producer Erwin after spending years getting over her abusive marriage to Ike Turner: “You know that wonderful expression, ‘If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans'?
On an ordinary October morning in 2013, just three months after our glorious wedding, I woke up and felt a lightning bolt strike my head and right leg. “I tried to speak but I couldn't get any words out.
I was having a stroke. “The stroke had delivered a powerful blow to my body: my entire right side was numb. “I’d have to work with a physiotherapist to learn how to walk again, the doctor told me, and using my right hand would be a problem. “But the psychological effects were even more profound. “I was miserable.
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