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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022
The Turner household has mislaid a beloved member.
Ronnie Turner, the youngest son of legendary singer Tina Turner and the late Ike Turner, has died astatine the property of 62. Ronnie's wife, Afida Turner, confirmed his passing successful a touching post, calling her hubby "a existent angel."
"I did the champion to the extremity this clip I was no[t] capable to prevention you," she wrote alongside a Dec. 9 Instagram post of the brace with his ma Tina. "Love you for... 17 years this is precise very precise atrocious and I americium precise mad," she wrote successful the caption of the post. "This is simply a calamity u with your member Craig and your begetter Ike Turner and Aline remainder successful paradise… So unfair."
Though his parents were celebrated musicians, Ronnie entered the acting world, making an quality successful the 1993 film, What's Love Got to Do With It (the autobiographical movie based connected the beingness of his ma and the tumultuous narration with her husband, Ike).
Ronnie's passing comes conscionable 4 years aft Tina's oldest son, Craig, (whose begetter was the precocious saxophonist Raymond Hill) died by suicide astatine the property of 59 successful July 2018.
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"My saddest infinitesimal arsenic a mother," Tina tweeted alongside a photograph of her holding a roseate implicit the ocean. "On Thursday, July 19, 2018, I said my last goodbye to my son, Craig Raymond Turner, erstwhile I gathered with household and friends to scatter his ashes disconnected the seashore of California. He was fifty-nine erstwhile helium died truthful tragically, but helium volition ever beryllium my baby."
In summation to Craig and Ronnie, the Grammy victor besides adopted 2 of Ike's children, Ike Jr., 64, and Michael, 63.
In the 2021 HBO Max documentary, Tina, the singer—who has been surviving successful Switzerland with hubby Erwin Bach since 1995—reflected connected her aboriginal days of motherhood, sharing that she "didn't walk a batch of time" with her sons aft her 1978 divorcement from Ike was finalized.
"I suffered but Ike didn't," she said, per an excerpt published by Fox News. "It was my symptom due to the fact that I wanted much time."
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