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Oprah's Super Soul

Tina Turner: My Love Story, Part 2

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Oprah continues her conversation with icon, legend and survivor Tina Turner about her new book, "Tina Turner: My Love Story," and the upcoming Broadway musical based on her life, "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical." In this two-part podcast, Tina reveals that she has privately suffered several life-threatening illnesses over the past five years. She explains how the health scares caused her to look back and reflect on her six-decade career, and how her faith in Buddhism and the love of her life, husband Erwin Bach, helped her through these difficult times. Tina also opens up about her explosive marriage to the late Ike Turner, her strained relationship with her mother and the devastating suicide of her eldest son, Craig. Part 2 of 2.

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0:00.0

I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

0:07.5

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:16.1

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:23.1

now. Welcome to part two of our conversation.

0:26.8

But now you have a new wound. I mean, mothers don't expect to bury their children. They

0:36.7

expect to be buried by their children. So when you heard of Craig's suicide, did how

0:44.5

did that impact you when you first heard it?

0:47.9

Well, first of all, I didn't believe it because me and Craig's last talks were, mother,

0:54.8

I'm so happy. I'm really happy now. The next time he said, I've met a woman that I have

1:02.2

never felt that way about for a very long time. This was our last two conversations. And

1:09.0

the very last one was he said, hi, mother, I just want to hear your voice in that last.

1:17.8

That one stuck out because he had never said that. I think that was his goodbye to me.

1:23.0

But I didn't realize that until this happened. At the moment when Craig said, Tina, Craig

1:30.1

is dead. He shot himself. Well, I didn't feel emotional or anything because I didn't

1:34.9

believe it. There must be a mistake. And then after I set up and said, tell me more,

1:40.0

I don't get it. This, this, this, this, somebody must be playing, not playing a game because

1:44.6

that doesn't, and it didn't make sense to me. And then after, after I found that it was

1:50.8

Craig and whatever pushed him to that point, that was a reality. And then what made me

1:58.7

emotional was the fact that he took a gun, shot himself in the head, and lay there for

2:05.5

four days. That is what I still battle with. I'm still working with trying to find out

2:11.1

why after one week of telling me how happy he was, a woman in his life, a great job had

2:18.5

just decorated his apartment. What did it? And I haven't found out yet. But I haven't

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