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According to Radar Online, Afida Turner told one of her friends that she had reached out to Tina Turner for financial help when Ronnie Turner’s health took a turn for the worse in 2016. However, the “What’s Love Got to Do with It” hitmaker reportedly refused and advised Afida to place Ronnie in a nursing home. “I can’t understand why, woman to woman, Tina doesn’t care about her son and his health!” Afida purportedly told her pal. “I am very sad about this.”
In a 1985 interview with Spin (via The Daily Beast), Ike Turner spoke about Tina’s estrangement from their son. “She’s saying she never wanted him, that she didn’t want to mother him. That hurt me, man,” he claimed at the time. And in a 1989 TV Week interview, Tina confessed to distancing herself from Ronnie and cutting him off financially. “I’m not going to be a bank for a nearly 30-year-old man,” she said.
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Ronnie was reportedly distraught over being left out of the 2021 HBO Max documentary about his mother, entitled “Tina.” A family insider told Fox News, “He’s the only [biological] son of Ike and Tina … It was very sad that Ronnie was not interviewed and not shown playing with his mother.” The source also said that Tina, who has been experiencing her own share of health issues, was still not speaking to Ronnie or her two other living sons when the documentary premiered.
