Celebrity marriages don’t last long. Well, at least a great number of them don’t. The reasons for this ‘phenomenon’ are various. The truth is that celebs lead pretty busy lives and follow hectic schedules, so they don’t often find the time to be around their families, which might be one of the reasons for the huge number of divorces among the elite.
Take Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for example. At the time they started dating, all eyes were on them, but their union was short-lived.
When they divorced, the media reported that Holmes was awarded the custody of their daughter, Suri Cruise, and her father was allowed to see her ten days every month. To the surprise of the wide public, he chose not to.
The last photo of Tom Cruise and his daughter was taken back in 2012, and according to the media, he hasn’t seen her ever since. Rumors are he got estranged from Suri because she’s not part of the controversial church of Scientology. In fact, although she has never said it out loud, Holmes implied that the church Cruise is heavily involved with was one of the reasons for the split.
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With or without her father in her life, Suri turned into an amazing young girl. Her mom made sure to raise her right, and today, Suri is well-behaved and hard-working.
Recently, she stole the attention of many with her angelic voice. Namely, she did the cover of Frank Sinatra’s Blue Moon for the 2022 film Alone Together, which tells a story about two strangers embroiled in bad relationships who wind up in the same upstate New York Airbnb.
When thinking of who might do the vocals, Holmes, who is the director of the film, strived for perfection, and choosing her daughter, who is extremely talented, was a no-brainer. “She’s very talented. She said she would do it, and she recorded it, and I let her do her thing. That’s the way I direct in general. ‘This is what I think we all want, and then go do your thing,’” Holmes told
However, if you think Holmes is biased, she isn’t the only one who believes Suri did an awesome job. In fact, a huge number of people took their time to praise the young lady for the job well-done.
“She avoided the contemporary pitfalls of many who burden songs with countless scales sung throughout the song. Her voice sounded lovely and well trained, where it was not necessary to over-perform! It was a total pleasure to listen to a celebrity’s child who, after doing her homework, owns the spotlight! Bravo!” one person wrote.
“She sounds so wonderful and has so much control in her voice. I’m so impressed,” another person added.
One fan reacted to Suri’s singing by comparing it to singer, actress, and activist Doris Day, who began her career as a big band singer in 1939 and achieved commercial success in 1945.
What’s most, Suri, who is now 16, resembles both her mom and dad and it looks like she has inherited the best of the two. Isn’t she a lovely young lady?
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There is no such thing as a bad dog, maybe just bad owners who fail to teach their furry pets the right behavior. When a dog is mistreated, it’s not unusual for them to turn aggressive, but that again, isn’t the dog’s fault.
Out of all dog breeds out there, Pit Bulls are considered to be most vicious. Their bad reputation is a result of humans treatment towards them. They have been used for dog frights for so long that they now stand for aggression. But the Pit Bull from this story proves this common believe to be completely wrong by stepping in for a little girl and saving her life.
Remayah Hernandez, 5, and her sister, were riding their bikes around the neighborhood when Remayah noticed the neighbor’s dog, a Labrador mix named Tank. This little girl is a huge animal lover, so she decided to get closer and pet the animal. But that didn’t end well as Tank attacked her and bit her in the face.
Remayah was in pain and all covered in blood and started screaming as loud as she could. Thankfully, her mother heard her and rushed to save her, but their family dog, a Pit Bull named Trigger was faster. He was always taught how to be a good boy, but when it came to his sweet human sister, he seemed to forgot everything about it and rushed to show the Lab who was he messing with. Trigger jumped the fence and released Remayah from the Lab’s jaws.
The sweet girl was left terrified and confused, but she was grateful her hero pet saved her life. She was taken to hospital where she had a surgery for her injuries. Tack was taken by the police and was eventually put down because of the aggressive behavior he manifested.
The family had a plan to take sweet Remayah to Disney World, but now that they spent all their money on her plastic surgery, they couldn’t afford the trip. However, once her story spread around, people started an online campaign and raised $1,000 for the trip she was so eagerly anticipating.
At the time of the incident, the attacker dog’s owner wasn’t home and isn’t sure how his dog managed to get out of the house. He does believe there is more to the story because as he says, his dog never showed any aggressive behavior before. However, he’s glad the little girl is doing okay.
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Dubbed ‘Daytime’s Leading Lady,’ actress Susan Lucci has had an astounding career as an actress and a TV host. Her role of Erica Kane in the ABC daytime drama All My Children is one of the most famous there are and the character is considered iconic.
In 1996, TV Guide ranked Lucci number 37 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. The Devious Made star also was named one of VH1’s 200 Top Icons of All Time and one of Barbara Walters’s Ten Most Fascinating People.
Unfortunately, Lucci has been experiencing health problems in recent years. Back in 2018, she was forced to undergo emergency heart surgery for a major blockage in her arteries that could have ended in a fatal heart attack.
The symptoms she had been experiencing, such as short breath, pain and pressure on her chest, raised a red flag so she visited the hospital and underwent a CT scan. Sadly, the tests that doctors ran indicated she had 90% blockage in the heart’s main artery and 70% blockage in another branch.
Just recently, the actress revealed during an interview that she had underwent a second emergency cardiac surgery. This time her symptoms were less severe, but just as the first time, she noticed them on time.
Speaking of her health state, Dr. Richard Shlofmitz, chairman of cardiology at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, New York, told Good Morning America, “This time, she wasn’t experiencing a heart attack and she wasn’t mentally disturbed. However, she displayed symptoms that made me worry that something could be amiss.”
If she hadn’t experienced the symptoms on time, she could have easily suffered severe heart attack.
Two months after her January 2022 procedure, Lucci’s husband Helmut Huber died at age 84.
“After that, nothing seemed important, my health or anything else,” she admitted. “I didn’t care about anything else.”
“I lost the love of my life and that’s been awful, but I have friends who make me laugh and keep me out and about, and I’m determined to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”
The truth is that not every cardiac condition has observable symptoms because not all of them are felt in the chest.
Lucci decided to open up about her health and the issues she had experienced because she wanted to encourage other women to be proactive about their health.
“Listen to your heart and act on it. Be your own best friend, be your own advocate. You’ll save your life,” Lucci said. “I feel so lucky to have the platform that I have. I just wanted to be able to do something other than entertain.”
In 2019, Susan Lucci walked down the runway at the 2019 American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Red Dress Collection.
Lucci is thankful to her doctors for saving her life.
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Many of us dream of fame and fortune because we believe that these things are what make life better. But there are people out there who have experienced all these and decided it wasn’t crucial for a fulfilling life. One of them is gorgeous Julie Christie, a stunningly beautiful and talented actress who left Hollywood in her prime.
As she rose to stardom, she decided she had it enough and turned to a more quiet life, and her decision surprised many, but she never regretted it, not once.
Christie, who is considered a British actress was in fact born in India as her father owned a tea plantation there. But as she turned six, she was sent to a boarding school in Britain. She was expelled from several schools and later said, “It would be shocking for you to know how little it took to get expelled in those days.
“Once, it was because I had my school dress tucked in my knickers and was accused of enticing village boys.”
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Christie studied in Paris, France, before she returned to England where she attended London’s Central School for Drama. She was just 16 when she made her stage debut as a member of the Frinton Repertory of Essex after which the promising talent began touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company, a love of hers that she would return to once again after leaving Hollywood.
In 1961, Christie had her screen debut in the sci-fi BBC series A for Andromeda. This series helped her attract the attention of renowned directors and producers who saw in her a future star. Then, in 1963, she had her big breakthrough with John Schlesinger’s film Billy Liar. What followed was yet another iconic role, that of the promiscuous model Diana Scott in Darling.
She started making a name for herself, and soon after, another huge hit was on her way. Christie was cast in the iconic 1965 romance Doctor Zhivago, starring alongside Omar Sharif.
However, despite the fame and the status she enjoyed, Christie didn’t find much enjoyment in being a celebrity.
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“I didn’t use to want to be a great star. But I must confess it’s becoming quite attractive to me now. However, I’m afraid I might become unbearable. In fact, now I am sometimes downright rude to people,” Julie said.
“I’m beginning to get spoiled. I’m starting to expect things. When people start predicting big things for you, then you really get terribly spoiled.”
She continued: ” I don’t feel I am a celebrity. No one ever recognizes me wherever I go and I’m just as glad. Success is a trap and you get caught up in it. I’m an incredibly selfish and insecure person.”
Her career reached new heights with the films that followed, including Far from the Madding Crowd, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, and Heaven Can Wait. In some of those productions, Julie appeared alongside her then-boyfriend Warren Beatty, who was widely known as a womanizer.
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Many tried convincing Christie to stay away from him because of his long history with women, but she refused to do so. Beatty dated many Hollywood divas, among which Jane Fonda, Carly Simon, Goldie Hawn, Joni Mitchell, Jackie Onassis, and Madonna.
Director John Schlesinger urged her to leave him and said of him that he “gets through women like a businessman through a dozen oysters.”
The two split eventually but remained very close friends.
“He gave me a political perspective, which I am very grateful for. I loved the way, say, that he would go to baseball matches and stand up in the interval and talk about getting rid of guns,” Christie said of Beatty after the breakup.
“He would be this little tiny figure in this big baseball stadium, and I would be looking down at him, I thought he was wonderfully courageous for doing that.”
“When she and her husband come to Los Angeles, they stay in our guest house. We’re very close and she’s a remarkable person,” Beatty told People in 2016.
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In 1977, Christie left her glamorous life behind and returned to England where she lived with a family and their children as she didn’t have a family on her own.
Then, in 1979, she engaged in a relationship with journalist Duncan Campbell with whom she tied the knot.
Years after moving to England, Christie returned to Hollywood and played in Away From Her, portraying an Alzheimer’s patient.
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The actress is now 82 and she is as stunning as ever. She admitted undergoing cosmetic surgery and says she has “no connection at all” with her young self. “That person has gone,” she added.
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Prince Harry’s all-tell memoir Spare caused quite a stir. People still can’t stop talking about the things he revealed in his long-awaited book. And as the members of the Firm haven’t commented on it publicly, it is obvious they are far from happy with the revelations as well as the accusations brought up by the Prince.
Among those who received their fair share of criticism by Harry have been his father, King Charles, and his stepmother Camilla.
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When William and Harry met Camilla fro the first time, William reportedly described the meeting as “awkward and tense.”
“I think the relationship between them all is warm now but if I’m honest, it wasn’t then. I think they found it hard,” a palace source told royal biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: Born to be King. “To be fair to Camilla, she never tried to be mummy but she was the ‘other woman’ and she was there and taking daddy’s time.”
Other experts claimed that initially, Harry wasn’t fond of Camilla either.
In her book The Palace Papers, royal author Tina Brown wrote that Harry “unnerved” Camilla.
“When the younger boy was eventually prevailed upon to be in the presence of Mrs Parker Bowles, he unnerved her with long silences and smouldering, resentful stares,” she quoted a courtier saying.
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And now, Camilla wasn’t spared in Spare either.
Harry revealed in his memoir that he and his brother had pleaded with their father not to marry Camilla.
“Despite Willy and me urging him not to, Pa was going ahead. We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings,” Harry wrote in Spare. “We recognized that he was finally going to be with the woman he loved, the woman he’d always loved.”
He even wrote that he had asked himself if Camilla would be “just as cruel to him as all the wicked stepmothers in storybooks,” adding that William “long harbored suspicions about the Other Woman.”
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Previously, in the interviews he gave to the media, Harry accused his stepmother of leaking stories to the British media in an attempt to fix her own public image. Further, he said that the media portrayed her as a ‘villain’ because they believed she was to be blamed for Charles and Diana’s collapsed marriage.
“That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen Consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that,” Harry said.
“If you are led to believe, as a member of the family, that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you, is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that’s what you’re gonna do.”
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In an interview with Good Morning America, Harry revealed that he hasn’t spoken with his father’s wife for a very long time.
“I love every member of my family, despite the differences, so when I see her, we’re perfectly pleasant with each other,” he said.
“She’s my stepmother. I don’t look at her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who married into this institution and has done everything that she can to improve her own reputation and her own image, for her own sake.”
According to royal expert Angela Levin, Camilla feels the same and she isn’t much interested in a relationship with Harry either.
“The Duchess always felt quite wary of Harry and used to see him out of the corner of her eye looking at her in a long and cold way. She found it rather unnerving. Otherwise, they got on quite well,” Levin writes in her new book Camilla: From Outcast to Queen Consort.
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Shortly after tying the knot, Harry and Meghan were given a new place to call home, Frogmore Cottage, which is on the Windsor Cottage grounds. The place has been a royal residence ever since 1792 and many members of the royalty called it home over the years, among them Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, and the Duchess of Kent. Queen Victoria’s mother was laid to rest in a mausoleum on its grounds.
When Harry and Meghan became the new residents of Frogmore Cottage, it was reported that they spent around $3 million to renovate it, and once they stepped down from their royal duties, it still remained their place that they could use whenever visiting Britain.
But now, as Harry’s book made many angry, especially King Charles, who hasn’t publicly commented his son’s memoir, the couple have reportedly been evicted from Frogmore Cottage.
The news has been confirmed by Harry and Meghan’s spokesperson. “We can confirm the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been requested to vacate their residence at Frogmore Cottage,” the spokesperson told Vanity Fair.
Allegedly, the residence has been offered to Prince Andrew instead, who has been living in a 30-room Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park since 2003.
As per The Sun, Andrew is “resisting” the King’s wish for him to move into Frogmore Cottage. “This surely spells the end of Harry and Meghan’s time in the UK,” a royal source told the newspaper.
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This decision came just a day after Spare was released and Harry and Meghan are reportedly “stunned” by the eviction.
“Harry and Meghan have until early summer to vacate,” a source told Scobie, reporting for Yahoo. “Initially, they were given just weeks, but now they have at least until after the coronation.”
“It all feels very final and like a cruel punishment,” a friend of Harry and Meghan’s added. “It’s like [the family] wants to cut them out of the picture for good.”
Royal author and expert Tom Bower commented on King Charles’ decision and told Page Six, “Harry and Meghan provoked him [King Charles] with Harry’s disgraceful book and the interviews he gave,” adding: “I mean, what did he expect?” the author continued. “Harry wanted the royal family to come on bended knee begging for forgiveness, and he’s completely crossed the spectrum, he’s in the mad wilderness of deranged victimhood.”
He added that the Sussexes are likely not welcomed to King Charles’ coronation.
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LOS ANGELES - 1990 T.V. Actress Deidre Hall poses for a portrait in 1090 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry Langdon/Getty Images)
I don’t think there is a single person out there who hasn’t heard of gorgeous Deidre Hall, the actress behind the iconic character of Dr. Marlena Evans on Days of Our Lives.
Today, at 75 years of age, the stunning actress seems to be defying age.
Although her acting career has been a fruitful one, her role of Dr. Marlena is probably her most famous one. Hall has been considered one of the best ever to grace our televisions, and we can’t help but agree.
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Throughout the years, Hall has received plenty of awards which witness of her greatness as an actress. Among the rest, she was honored as the Best Television Role Model and bagged the America Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) in 1994. She also won five Best Actress awards from Soap Opera Digest between the years 1982-1985 and 1995.
On May 19, 2016, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and she definitely owns plenty for her success to her years-long mentor and friend, Frances Reid. The two were very close friends for 34 years, until Reid’s passing in 2010.
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When it comes to Hall’s private life, she has been married four times. She tried becoming a mother during two of her marriages, but that didn’t come the easy way. Eventually, she and her fourth husband, writer Steve Sohmer, turned to a surrogate, a woman named Robin, who gave birth to the couple’s two children, David Sohmer and Tully Sohmer. When Robin was giving birth to Hall’s first child, a friend on her was dying in the hospital at the same time. Hall described that particular moment of her life as “frightening.”
Hall became a mother at the age of 45, and she and her children are very close.
When asked whether she would marry for the firth time, she once said, “No, no interest.”
In 2019, she said that her life turned out great and that “It’s the best time ever.” The actress, who was named one of America’s ten most beautiful women by Satellite Orbit and TV Guide, added: “My kids and my family are in good shape. I’m healthy. I do a job that I love. I have people, and a home that I adore, a garden that I like growing. It doesn’t get any better, and I’m beyond grateful.”
Hall’s face appeared on countless magazine covers, including Los Angeles Magazine, People, TV Guide, Woman, Woman’s World, Woman’s Own, and Family Circle.
Tab Hunter was a Hollywood heartthrob whose career skyrocketed after he landed a role in the 1955’s Battle Cry. He was adored by millions and his stunning looks charmed many.
When he was 15, he lied about his age so that he could get enlisted in the United States Coast Guard where he earned the nickname Hollywood because of his infatuation with movies. At 17, Hunter was discovered by legendary agent Henry Willson who had previously found male superstars like Robert Wagner and Rock Hudson.
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“Acting skill was secondary to chiseled features and a fine physique,” Hunter revealed in his book Tab Hunter Confidential.
And he was so right, because it was mostly his ”Malibu beach boy looks” that helped him become part of Hollywood in the first place. ”I was sort of a product of. I was thrown into it, and kind of wondered where does one serve one’s apprenticeship. I was one of those people who had to learn while doing. I learned on the job,” he said.
As his career progressed and more and more people fell for his looks and acting, Hunter dealt with personal issues. In fact, he was a homosexual, but speaking about it openly in then-controversial America was not an option. He knew that if he revealed his sexuality, his career would suffer. Sadly, he was forced to pursue his relationships in the shadows and out of the public eye.
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While Hunter dated fellow star Anthony Perkins, people started talking around.
Speaking of their relationship, the actor said, ”We just chatted and got on and soon we were starting to see each other But it was difficult; we couldn’t just go out for dinner together or go see a movie because we were both getting so popular back then. I didn’t talk about my personal life to anyone back then at all. The way I saw it it was nobody’s damn business.”
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At one point, Hunter was told that someone was intending to write a book about him, and he was certain things about his sexuality would be revealed in there so he finally decided to tell the truth himself. He explained to The Hollywood Reporter that it was best to “get it from the horse’s mouth.”
Before he came out of the closet, Hunter was believed to be dating his Burning Hills costar, Natalie Wood. Warner Bros, the studio that offered Hunter a seven-year contract, placed the two young stars together. They pretended to be dating and attended numerous award shows and ceremonies together. At one point, he was also very close to star Debbie Reynolds. As everyone believed he was a straight man, Hunter received endless amounts of mail from female fans.
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He eventually married the man he was in love with for a long time, Allan Glaser. The two lived a quiet life away from the public eye in a small cottage in a town on the outskirts of Santa Barbara.
Tab Hunter passed away at 86 from a heart attack after a blood clot entered his lungs. He has had quite a career.
What do you think of his life?
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With a career spanning over five decades, Tina Turner is one of the best-selling recording artists. She was born Anna Mae Bullock and her parents divorced when she was very young leaving her and her sister with their grandmother. When she turned 19, Tina moved in with her mother and that’s when her talent got noticed.
Tina rose to fame when she started performing with her then-husband Ike Turner before she started a solo career.
Her energetic stage presence and her powerful vocal kept her on the top for many years. Tina’s songs “Private Dancer,” “What’s Love Got To Do,” “Proud Mary,” and many more are still huge hits and part of many generations’ lives.
She retired from singing some years ago and has faced a series of health challenges from 2013 to 2018. Today, however, she’s feeling fine and is happy to be alive.
Tina had a stroke after which she struggled to use her right hand. She also lost the ability to speak shortly, but managed to regain her strength. But just after she thought she was doing great, she was diagnosed with intestinal cancer followed by kidney failure. Not many were familiar with the super-star’s struggles as she opened up about it in her book, Tina Turner: My Love Story, published two years ago.
“I began to think about death. If my kidneys were going, and it was time for me to die, I could accept that. It was OK. When it’s time, it’s really time. I didn’t mind the thought of dying, but I was concerned about how I would go,” she wrote.
After the successful surgery during which part of her colon was removed, she had a kidney transplant. Her donor was her husband Erwin Bach.
“I know that my medical adventure is far from over,” Turner wrote. “But I’m still here — we’re still here, closer than we ever imagined. I can look back and understand why my karma was the way it was. Good came out of bad. Joy came out of pain. And I have never been so completely happy as I am today.”
Tina and Erwin’s love story has been a beautiful one.
Following her marriage with her first husband Ike, who has been abusive and made her life a living hell, she didn’t believe in love, but meeting Erwin changed it all.
Speaking of their first encounter, the singer said, “He had the prettiest face. You could not miss it. My heart went bu-bum. It means that a soul has met. My hands were shaking. And Roger said to me, ‘Tina, you ride with Erwin,’ and I wanted to go, ‘Yay!’” At the time, he was a 30-year-old music executive for EMI.
Later on, Turner invited him to visit her to the States and that’s when she knew he was the one. “It’s love. It’s something we both have for each other. I always refer to it as an electrical charge. I still have it. Even though when I left her two hours ago, I still have that feeling. It’s in my heart. I feel very warm about this,” he said of their relationship.
Erwin proposed Turner on her 59th birthday. She didn’t say ‘yes’ right away because she had already had a bad experience with marriage.
“I said, ‘I don’t have an answer.’ It wasn’t yes, it wasn’t no. Marriage says ownership. I didn’t want that ‘my’ anything, anymore. I had enough of that.”
They eventually tied the knot. The wedding ceremony was held at their luxurious estate in Switzerland and the singer wore a fabulous dress by Giorgio Armani, embellished with Swarovski crystals.
When she was diagnosed with kidney cancer, it was Erwin who gave her the biggest support and made the ultimate sacrifice for her.
“He said he didn’t want another woman, or another life. Then he shocked me. He said he wanted to give me one of his kidneys”, she remarked.
Her fans wished her well and were eager to learn how she was doing after she managed to overcome the number of health issues, so she treated them with a video and said, “Yes, I made it, I look great. I feel good. I’ve gone through some very serious sicknesses that I’m overcoming, so it’s like having a second chance at life.”
To celebrate turning 80 years old, Tina has recorded a special birthday video message just for her fans.💜 #Tina80pic.twitter.com/dUFEUawQ7r
In the recent feature-length documentary, simply titled “Tina,” the singer spoke of her life again and said how she suffers from PTSD from the abuse she experienced by her former husband Ike Turner. She also said that she wants to enter the third and final chapter of her life out of the spotlight and fans saw it as a farewell.
We wish Tina all the best in the years to come and we hope she won’t experience any more health issues.
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