We were very aware that that is something that she is still dealing with.” And it oftentimes comes up in dreams or nightmares, and it’s like she’s reliving that stuff for the first time again…. “Revisiting that time can be very traumatic for her.

“We were able to use that stuff to really dive into the details of that time in her life without us needing current-day Tina to have to really tell us in kind of detail that time of her life,” said Lindsay. What is clear in talking to her is that she is making an active choice every day to continue to survive.”Īware of how triggering it could be for Tina to revisit the Ike days, the filmmakers relied on audio from previous interviews to cover that period-interweaving the actual 1981 interview from People with other recollections Tina shared with journalist Kurt Loder.

In meeting Tina early on, we kind of became aware of the complicated relationship she has to her own story…. Said Lindsay, “The trauma doesn’t just go away-that’s something we wanted to communicate with this film…. When the filmmakers met Tina in Geneva, they were interested in the icon’s relationship with this chapter of her history, her public persona, and the misleading lore of her survival story. Lindsay and Martin’s documentary alternates stunning performance footage of Tina-singing and shaking in beads onstage-with vulnerable behind-the-scenes admissions. When Lindsay and Martin began working on the documentary, they learned that Tina opened up about the abuse during a forgotten period of her career when she was struggling to win over a record company on her own, and had resorted to Hollywood Squares appearances, Vegas ballrooms, and sad cabaret acts just to make ends meet. īut the neat pop-culture narrative around Tina’s survival-that Tina left Ike and immediately triumphed in her solo career and survival-is not accurate. The pain of Tina’s marriage to Ike has been revisited in the 1986 memoir I: Tina, the 1993 biographical film What’s Love Got to Do With It, and the 2018 Tina Turner Musical. How cocaine made Ike’s mood swings worse, and he took her to a brothel in Tijuana, Mexico, on the night of their wedding. How he beat her with a shoe stretcher while she was pregnant and burned her with scalding coffee. How Ike discovered her as a teenager, rechristened her Tina, and micromanaged every aspect of her career with the Ike & Tina duo-even withholding her finances. In the years after breaking that bombshell in People magazine, Tina shared more details of her marriage to Ike and the path that made her vulnerable to it-how she was born Annie Mae Bullock into an abusive house before being abandoned by her parents as a child.

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