Tina Turner and Edwin Bach in 1989.Photo: Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty
Tina Turnerfound strength through the love from her second husband and music executiveErwin Bach.
The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, whodied May 24 at age 83after a long illness, experienced a great deal of loss in her lifetime with the death of her two sonsRonnieandCraig.
“This all happened within a couple of years of things. These are the loves of her life,” Wayne Lukas, her tour stylist, told PEOPLE exclusively.
“I don’t how she sustained [amidher health issues],” he added. “I don’t know how she did it other than the love of Erwin Bach, because he really did love her.”
Tina Turner, Ike Turner and sons Ike Jr., Craig, Ronnie and Michael.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
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Lukas saw the “Proud Mary” singer in New York City forTina: The Tina Turner Musical.
“I was so happy that she was able to attend that, but I could tell that something was not the same,” he says. “When her other son died, I thought, ‘It’s too much.'”
Meanwhile, her son Ronnie — the only son she had with Ike — died ofcolon canceron Dec. 8, 2022, at the age of 62. One day later, Tina shared a tribute to her youngest son on Instagram. “Ronnie, you left the world far too early,” she wrote. “In sorrow I close my eyes and think of you. My beloved son.”
On top of the death of her two sons, the singerfaced a number of health problems, which date back to 1978 when she was diagnosed with hypertension. In recent years, she had a stroke and experienced intestinal cancer and total kidney failure.
Bach was there through it all. In 2017, hedonated a kidney when she went into kidney failure.
Tina Turner and Erwin Bach.Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty
In her 2020 memoir,Happiness Becomes You,she added of life with Bach after Ike: “I lived through a hellish marriage that almost destroyed me, but I went on. I know that my medical adventure is far from over. But I’m still here — we’re still here, closer than we ever imagined. I can look back and understand why my karma was the way it was. Good came out of bad. Joy came out of pain. And I have never been so completely happy as I am today.”
The couple met in 1985 and tied the knot in 2013 after 27 years together. They lived together in Switzerland since 1994 and she earned her citizenship in 2013.
source: people.com
