“Rare for a mother to say that”: Tina Turner’s heartbreaking fear revealed
Tina Turner’s daughter-in-law, Afida, has revealed the star’s deepest fear for her children, and her agonising health struggles prior to her death, in an emotional interview with the Daily Mail.
Afida revealed that the Proud Mary singer, who outlived two of her four children, grieved for them every day and was “extremely sick” by the time her second son, Craig, passed away.
“If you lose a child, or a loved one, you are going to cry every morning and every night,” Afida said.
Craig, had passed away at the age of 59 by suicide in 2018. His brother Ronnie passed away just four years later at the age of 62 from colon cancer.
Afida, who is Ronnie’s widow, shared that the only comfort was that Tina was finally reunited with her beloved sons.
“They never had time to spend together and now all three of them are together.”
Afida also revealed Tina’s deepest fear for her son Ronnie, and how she was worried he could “turn out like” his abusive father, Ike Turner
“[Tina] sometimes told me, ‘You don’t want to stay with him. He is going to be like his father’. It is pretty rare for a mother to say that,” she said.
“At first, he was kind of like his father, but after that he was going very well,” she added\, revealing that she’d given Ronnie an ultimatum to get his act together.
“He made a very big effort to keep me. In the beginning it was very hard because I was not willing to stay with him,” she said.
Afida also opened up about the star’s death and revealed that despite Tina’s health struggles, the singer was extremely strong and resilient, which made her family think that she would live forever.
“She was ill for a long time, but she was extraordinarily strong too,” she said.
“She was fighting for her life from 2017 until now. We knew how sick she was, but she was doing so well that this was not expected,” Afida added.
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