Tina Turner doesnโt think she could โeverโ forgive Ike Turnerโs abuse.
The 79-year-old singer no longer worries about her late former spouse โ who passed away in 2007 โ but will never accept why he abused her and controlled her life until they split in 1976.
Turner also admitted she has never spoken about the full extent of Ikeโs abuse because she is still โashamedโ.
She told The New York Times newspaper: โI think Iโm ashamed. I feel I told enough.โ
The โWhatโs Love Got To Do With Itโ singer doesnโt think she should be seen as a โstrongโ person.

She said: โI identify only with my life. I was busy doing it. Doing the work.โ
โI donโt necessarily want to be a โstrongโ person.โ
โI had a terrible life. I just kept going. You just keep going, and you hope that something will comeโฆ This [life now] came.โ
Tina retired 10 years ago and not only does she not miss performing, as she was ready for her career to be over while she was in the throes of her 50th-anniversary tour in 2009.

She told The New York Timesโ Amanda Hess: โI was just tired of singing and making everybody happy.โ
Meanwhile, her life continues to inspire, as the subject of a Broadway musical that starts previews Oct. 12 before officially opening on Nov. 7. And while Turner wasnโt able to watch her biopic Whatโs Love Got to Do With It?, finding it too painful, she has no problem watching Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
As the Times notes, when the show opened in London, Turner even came on stage during the curtain call and told the actor who played Ike, โI forgive you.โ Thatโs something she didnโt do in real life.
โI donโt know if I could ever forgive all that Ike ever did to me,โ she tells the Times. But, she adds with a laugh, โIkeโs dead. So we donโt have to worry about him.โ
