Tina Turner talks about life and abuse in a docufilm "true love doesn't ask you to stay in the shadows"

The fabulous American rock star retraces her career and the abuse suffered by her husband in the 70s, and bids farewell to her fans.

A post-traumatic disorder that still reappears in nightmares like a war veteran: in the docufilm, Tina, released on March 27 on the HBO channel, the legendary rock star Tina Turner tells at the age of 81 how domestic violence suffered by ex-husband Ike Turner has marked her psyche indelibly, so much so that she still experiences flashbacks of the moments in which he beat her. In the documentary that traces her extraordinary artistic career, Tina also gives space to the story of the years of abuse with her husband and artistic partner from whom she finally divorced in 1978, with a great effort to free herself from the psychological submission into which he had gradually led her. In the 1980s, when she was reborn as a soloist, she was one of the first-ever to speak out and publicly denounce hidden violence in couples, a taboo subject practically all over the world. Tina made the decision to put her private in the streets because, after the separation, journalists kept asking her to talk about the collaboration with her husband, and only after having revealed the reasons for their separation no one has dared to evoke the subject anymore. Since then, her coming out has been of great help to many women in her same condition and even Oprah Winfrey, who was abused as a child, often mentions her to point out how women between their two generations have been - Oprah has 67 years old - to break the silence on domestic violence.

Seven years ago Tina found true love in her new husband, the German Erwin Bach, who she also talked about in her book Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good. Of Erwin, the singer says he taught her how a man truly in love doesn't need to turn off his partner's light because he's not afraid of being overshadowed by her. In the documentary, of Anglo-American production and directed by award-winning Dan Lindsay and TJMartin, Tina Turner also recounts her childhood in extreme poverty and how her fuel was the dream of becoming "the first black rock'n'roll singer famous as the Rolling Stones ". The documentary also talks about the executive of a record company who addressed racist and misogynistic insults to her in the 1980s and who wanted to tear her contract up. Tina ended her last tour in 2008, aged 68. "I should be proud of that, and I am," she says in the film, moved as she bids farewell to her fans. But it is not possible to say "goodbye" to Tina Turner.

Tina Turner talks about life and abuse in a docufilm "true love doesn't ask you to stay in the shadows" by Imran Kasuri