Prayer Up, Tina Turner Is Fighting For Her Life As She Battles Incurable Dangerous Disease

hey everyone and welcome back to my channel Tina Turner is a multiple Grammy a winning singer songwriter who has enjoyed a long and storied career in show business born in 1939 in Nutbush Tennessee she began performing at the age of 19 and racked up a string of hits recording with musicians Ike Turner whom she eventually married in the 1960s and 70s between 2013 and 2018 Turner suffered a series of major health setbacks beginning with a stroke and followed by bouts of intestinal cancer and kidney disease she underwent successful operations in 2016 and 2017 to remove a cancerous section of her colon and receive a kidney transplant as of March 2019 she's still under medical treatment related to the transplant and her body's rejection of the organ Turner retired after a record-breaking international farewell tour in 2000 but never stayed far from the public eye popping up in 2008 for a grammy award show duet with beyonce and embarking soon thereafter on a highly acclaimed fiftieth anniversary tour throughout the US and Europe Turner suffered some serious health setbacks between 2013 and 2018 bounced back to help mount a theatrical production based on her life in music Tina the tina turner musical which opened in London in April 2018 and penned a best-selling autobiography Tina Turner my love story published in October 2018 the public was largely unaware of Tara's health problems until she spoke of them in her memoir revealing that she suffered a stroke in 2013 from which she was still recovering when she was diagnosed with early stage intestinal cancer and kidney failure the cancer was successfully treated by the removal of part of her colon but by that time her kidney disease had progressed to the point where transplant was required and she would have to go on dialysis until a kidney donor was found at that point Turner wrote the future looked so bleak to her that she considered requesting assisted suicide Jonah's current husband record producer Owen back came to the rescue by offering to donate one of his own kidneys in a further stroke of good fortune their blood types matched and a transplant was performed in April 2017 followed by a long process of recovery my body is trying to reject a new kidney which is not uncommon after a transplant turner out this means I have to take strong doses of immunosuppressants to weaken my antibodies and prevent them from attacking an organ they don't recognize even so she felt that that operation had quite literally given her a new lease on life after transplant it seems that there's always another test another doctor's appointment or biopsy to get through turn her out but I'm still here we're both still here closer than we ever imagined and that's cause for celebration those words were written in 2018 a year that would bring even more ups and downs in Turners life in Korea while still battling transplant rejection Turner helped mount and open a successful stage show Tina the Tina Turner musical which premiered in London in April 2018 almost exactly a year after her surgery then in June her eldest son Craig took his own life by shooting himself in October her autobiography was published it included a heartfelt tribute her son none of the attendant press coverage over the course of that year reported new or recurring health problems on Turner's part except for her ongoing treatments related to the transplant in November she told London's Daily Express that overall she was doing well I'm in good shape now she said I resisted to the reality that doctors and checkups will always be a part of my life fortunately I have really nice doctors nevertheless rumors began to circulate and continued to circulate well into 2019 to the effect that Turner was gravely ill and near death due to any number of alleged ailments some of the illnesses named in these rumors were stroke stomach cancer intestinal cancer and the rejection of a kidney or liver transplant the earliest of them appeared to be a side-effect of the extensive press coverage her book had received despite the fact that Turner stroke had occurred five years earlier and no subsequent instances had been reported we began receiving inquiries from readers in October 2018 the month she had an autobiography come out asking if it was true that she had just suffered a stroke similarly although Turner stated in the book that tests showed no recurrence of her cancer after she underwent surgery in 2016 readers were still asking us in early 2019 if it was true that she was dying of intestinal or stomach cancer the public was also misled by erroneous reporting from tabloid papers and gossip websites for example in October 2018 a number of these sites repeated unconfirmed reports that Turner was fighting stomach cancer in November National Enquirer radar online and other unreliable sources claiming that Turner was so close to death that she was planning her own funeral the same sources played up an alleged rivalry between Turner and the late Aretha Franklin saying Turner wanted her funeral to be bigger than Franklin's but three months later in a February 2019 interview with a Sunday post Turner's sounded upbeat and optimistic I don't have any big plans but I don't like to rule out any possibilities either she said I still love my music and some days I feel like performing again I'll be around for a while yet and who knows what might happen we'll see but in the meantime keep the music in your life I've got to say it music is simply the best on 3rd of March 2019 Tina Turner was photographed on stage with the cast of Tina the Tina Turner musical at the shows a German premiere in Hamburg please note that she looks neither gravely ill nor near death unfortunately Turner's management declined to answer questions about the state of the singer's health when we reached out to them for comment but based on the evidence rumours of Tina Turner's imminent demise appear unfounded thanks for listening please like comment and 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Published: Sun Apr 19 2020