Oct 7, 2026 · 37 min · 11 segments
This episode is a re-release; it originally aired on October 17, 2018. Oprah talks with icon, legend and survivor Tina Turner about her new book, "Tina Turner: My Love Story," and the upcoming…
Tina TurnerGuest
Oprah WinfreyHost
Okay, you also said, in the book that you thought a lot about your mother, you thought a lot about Ike.
What did you conclude from that? Were you surprised that you were thinking about Ike during that time? I tell you,
Because in the musical, it showed that he changed because of drugs and also he was paranoid.
And I think some kind of way I really came up where there was a little bit of sickness in there with Ike.
Actually, we were both working on a book together where I'm asking him the questions.
And he was saying the most important question you can ask about a person's life is not what's wrong with you, but what happened to you.
Because what happened to you particularly if you were traumatized at an early age, affects the way your brain works, the way the synapse in your brain works, and has a major impact on you in the future, what happens to you as a young person.
And so what you were saying in the book, I've been looking for the reasons behind his behavior, trying to figure out where he was coming from, telling myself, that's why he did what he did all these years later I wanted to ask you why do you think he did what he did
well I think he did what he did because he couldn't sing he had to depend to depend on me to do the singing and at that same time when we couldn't get a hit record I was being blamed for And so he had to find someone for the blame and the alcohol or the drugs or whatever he was taking shifted all of that weight, all of that, how to say, the cause of no success on me.
Then, of course, I started to write the songs or to do whatever I could do to try to get hit records to change him because he hadn't been successful.
He was always violent with Lorraine, the lady of the two children that he had for her.
Okay, you also said, in the book that you thought a lot about your mother, you thought a lot about Ike.
What did you conclude from that? Were you surprised that you were thinking about Ike during that time? I tell you,
Because in the musical, it showed that he changed because of drugs and also he was paranoid.
And I think some kind of way I really came up where there was a little bit of sickness in there with Ike.
Actually, we were both working on a book together where I'm asking him the questions.
And he was saying the most important question you can ask about a person's life is not what's wrong with you, but what happened to you.
Because what happened to you particularly if you were traumatized at an early age, affects the way your brain works, the way the synapse in your brain works, and has a major impact on you in the future, what happens to you as a young person.
And so what you were saying in the book, I've been looking for the reasons behind his behavior, trying to figure out where he was coming from, telling myself, that's why he did what he did all these years later I wanted to ask you why do you think he did what he did
well I think he did what he did because he couldn't sing he had to depend to depend on me to do the singing and at that same time when we couldn't get a hit record I was being blamed for And so he had to find someone for the blame and the alcohol or the drugs or whatever he was taking shifted all of that weight, all of that, how to say, the cause of no success on me.
Then, of course, I started to write the songs or to do whatever I could do to try to get hit records to change him because he hadn't been successful.
He was always violent with Lorraine, the lady of the two children that he had for her.
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