Six months later, Turner sat in the audience at the official opening of the show, titled Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, in London and was moved when theatergoers applauded her.Īfter watching her life story unfold onstage, Turner, reflecting on her life experiences, recalled the Buddhist expression “It is possible to turn poison into medicine.” There, she performed with Adrienne Warren, the actress chosen for the role.
He had introduced her to people who wanted to turn her life into a musical on the stage and also interested her in doing a second memoir and a documentary.ĭespite having to continue treatments to control the aftereffects of the transplant, Turner attended the press event that launched the musical. But, ultimately, she collaborated with the show’s producers and even participated in the search for an actress to play her.īach kept Turner busy and motivated her to stay active. At first, she was reluctant to work on the project. Nevertheless, Turner helped develop a musical based on her life. Toward the end of that year, she felt a little more energetic but was still far from being fully recovered.Ĭourtesy of Looping Sudios from Tina Turner’s personal collection Afterward, Turner needed drug treatments to stop her body from rejecting the new kidney. A colonoscopy showed that she was cancer-free, so Turner underwent a kidney transplant. But what if something happened to him? What if he had a problem with his kidney someday?”īach remained steadfast, however, and Turner accepted his gift, daring to hope. “Why should he take such a risk to give me, an older woman, a few extra years? He knew he could survive with one kidney. But, as her best-selling memoir, My Love Story-published last year-details, Bach stepped up and donated a kidney to his wife.Īt first, Turner was reluctant.
Then, her kidney problems worsened, and she signed up to be a member of an assisted-suicide program. The treatment involved the removal of part of her intestines. In 2016, doctors diagnosed her with intestinal cancer. Turner suffered a stroke, followed by kidney failure and vertigo.
Shortly after that her health problems began. Seventeen years later, in 2013, she married Bach, who by then had been her companion for nearly 30 years. At the time, the legendary entertainer was 57 and enjoying a hugely successful career as a rock star as well as a thriving relationship with her partner, Erwin Bach. In addition, she believes sleep is so important that she only has two meals a day because she sleeps so long. With a home in Switzerland, she has become a devotee of saunas and steam rooms and “walking 10 miles up and down stairs at home”.More than 20 years ago, Tina Turner appeared on Larry King Live to promote her Wildest Dreams Tour, in support of her studio album of the same name. She says she stays away from sweet and prefers to eat healthy foods because of how they make her feel. Her daily breakfast consists of banana, kiwi and melon, and brown German bread. The legendary singer- who has stayed a size 10 for the past 4 decades- puts her stable size down to not eating after 6pm, drinking lots of water and, of course, dancing. In today’s world you can be the kind of woman you want to be.” “If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. Tina Turner, at 74, seems to just get better and better with age – a phenomenon the singer believes is down to a combination of great style, health and attitude.”A 50-year-old woman is equivalent to 40 when I was growing up,” she insists. Tina Turner, best known for her catchy songs and phenomenal legs and hair, is the feature for this attention Celebrity Workout. Forget the scandals and the dating drama, give us their diet and workout routines! Celebs have the benefit of working with expensive trainers and nutritionists to stay red carpet ready, so we’ve done the research and passed it along to you. Celebrities get all the attention, which means they have to look good for the paparazzi, so they have to eat healthy and workout.
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