He loved Mia Farrow, he was a big fan,' she said. Ike had one biological child with Tina Turner Ronnie, born in and adopted one of Tina's children Craig born and fathered by saxophonist Raymond Hill.
Craig committed suicide in Mia was originally named Cicily Rashale Turner. Pictured: Mia's birth certificate. Tina adopted Ike Turner's sons Ike Jr. Ike later had daughters, Linda Trippeter and Twanna Melby.
Mia said: 'There wasn't any favoritism. Mia, who now lives in Atlanta with her husband and two sons, says she never witnessed any brutality in Ike and Tina's marriage and remembers a childhood surrounded by laughter and music, rather than violence. When it came to rehearsals, daddy was the choreographer and composer, so they might quibble over things but I never saw him hit her.
I'm not saying those things didn't happen, I just never saw that. Mia slips in and out of calling Tina 'mom', and says she really was her 'other mother'. I was like the daughter she never had, we did everything together. I had been outside playing with my brothers, I was dirty from head to toe. You are a princess, you are a lady.
It makes my heart sing. From what I saw as a kid, he was always laughing and joking and having a good time with Tina. To me our house was like Disneyland, we always had fun and we always had friends.
There were barbecues and swim parties. I can still hear Tina saying, ''Are you going to act like you have house training? Tina finally fled Ike's abuse in — escaping from the Hilton hotel in Dallas across a highway, after Ike had beaten her in the back of a limousine.
Mia got a first-hand account, saying: 'My mother was in the car with Ike and Tina and we spoke about this several times. My mother said, ''Anna Mae, Ike's out, this is your chance. You're not going to get out if you don't leave now. Run and don't ever look back. Everyone would be in the studio and then come back to the house to eat.
Ann Thomas, Tina and our housekeeper, Liz, all cooked. Daddy was the taster. He would go to each pot and say we need more salt in this one. I accidentally hit a key. My dad played it back and kept it in the song. If you listen to Nutbush, somewhere in there, you hear it.
I thought I was on cloud nine. Mia's early childhood was spent around A-list stars of the time. Daddy had the entire family there. Bill Cosby comes on, calls me up and we had a little chat.
He's telling everyone that I'm the daughter of Ike and Tina. I'm dancing because she taught me the routines. We had an absolute ball. My mom Ann comes running out of the studio, saying, ''She can't go like that! Ike died on December 12, , aged 76, with the cause of death listed as accidental cocaine overdose, by the San Diego County medical examiner. But Mia is skeptical about her father's cause of death, saying: ''When the report said that he had cocaine in his system, I thought, he couldn't breathe much less inhaled crack out of the pipe.
She was devastated by the portrayal of her father and began doubting what she knew about her childhood. I couldn't do it'.
Ike admitted to hitting Tina during their tumultuous relationship which began in the late s when the teenager, then called Anna Mae Bullock from Nutbush, Tennessee, grabbed the mic and sang along with his band, Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm, at a club in St Louis. Pictured: The famous duo performing on stage in LA in I remember he was flexing his muscles and thinking, this guy is great.
Life changed dramatically when Tina finally fled Ike's abuse in — escaping from the Hilton hotel in Dallas, Texas, across a highway, shortly after Ike had beaten her bloody in the back of a limousine. Mia got a first-hand account from Ann Thomas.
But she said that Tina slapped daddy, he went back [at her] and it escalated. Mia said that her mother, Ann, was left at the Hilton hotel from which Tina had fled to face an irate Ike. Mia continued: 'They were supposed to go on stage in an hour. He lost money that night because Tina wasn't there. He was furious. He stormed out of the room, told the band to go home. He just stayed and got high. On drugs, he was unpredictable but my mother always stood up to him. She wasn't one of those women that goes, okay.
She'll stand up to you and go, bring it. I'm the girl from Nutbush. Ike married Mia's mother Margaret Ann Thomas center in They divorced in as his cocaine problem spiraled out of control. Mia said: 'People were coming to the house. He had bells on the doors and side gate. It was the paranoia, thinking someone is going to pop up in the house. My mom just couldn't handle it anymore'.
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She didn't have to put up with that. She would get these attitudes and give me grief, so we would get into fights and I maybe had to hit her some. That's not my style. If you start something with me, I just ain't going to sit back and take it. Such as the time Tina tried to run away and he had to spank her with a coat hanger. Or the time a girlfriend named Lorraine had an argument with Tina and started threatening her with a pistol and a poker from the fireplace.
Lorraine had gone in the bathroom and shot herself right in the side, hitting her lungs. There was blood all over the place. And then the police thought I did it. But that was the accidental part. I panicked and accidentally picked up the gun after she shot herself. You know, just in a panic, I reached down and took it away before I called for an ambulance. I was so nervous that I could hardly dial the telephone. I smile and nod agreeably, not wanting to upset Ike when he's in the middle of telling a story.
They wanted to arrest me for shooting her. Like, at the hospital, Lorraine was mumbling, 'Sonny, don't shoot. She was real grateful, and finally she realised that she wasn't going to share me with Tina.
So that was that, but it was scary for a while. I could have gone to the electric chair. But Ike doesn't like suspicious minds. Moreover, Ike was cremated after the funeral service. According to Ike Jr, Tina had cut off all contacts from them.
Ike further believes that after Tina met her long-time partner, Erwin Bach , she turned her back on him and his siblings in the U. However, she did not visit him in the convalescent home.
Therefore, we hope he is in good mental and physical health today.
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