Tina Turner is ‘happy to be an 80-year-old woman’ as she celebrates milestone birthday… after overcoming a stroke, cancer and kidney disease
Tina Turner took to Twitter on Tuesday to wish herself a happy 80th birthday.
The Private Dancer singer was feeling very grateful to be in such great health on her milestone birthday after weathering a stroke, intestinal cancer and kidney disease in recent years.
‘Yes, I’m 80,’ Turner began. ‘How did I think I would be at 80? Not like this. How is this? Well, 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. I’m happy to be an 80-year-old woman.’
Happy birthday to me: Tina Turner took to Twitter on Tuesday to wish herself a happy 80th birthday
A survivor: The Private Dancer singer was feeling very grateful to be in such great health on her milestone birthday after weathering a stroke, intestinal cancer and kidney disease in recent years
Turner suffered a stroke in 2013, and was diagnosed with intestinal cancer in 2016, the songbird shared in her memoir My Love Story.
She then developed kidney disease.
Tina underwent successful operations in 2016 and 2017 to remove a cancerous section of her colon and to receive a kidney transplant. The kidney was donated by her husband Erwin Bach.
Happy to be here: ‘Yes, I’m 80,’ Turner began. ‘How did I think I would be at 80? Not like this. How is this? Well, I look great, I feel good, I’ve gone through some very serious sicknesses that I’m overcoming’
The point: She added, ‘So it’s like having a second chance at life. I’m happy to be an 80-year-old woman’
‘I know that my medical adventure is far from over,’ Turner wrote in her book. ‘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.’
There was also a video where some of her famous friends wished her well.
Ringo Starr said: ‘Tina is incredible. Happy birthday, Tina Turner! Peace and love.’
A tough first marriage: With abusive spouse Ike Turner in the 1970s. They were wed from 1962 until 1978
New woman: But in the 1980s she reinvented herself as a solo artist. Her comeback song was 1984’s Private Dancer. Seen in 1986
A big hit: She had a pivotal role in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Mel Gibson
Missy Elliott also wished Turner a happy birthday, writing, ‘We Celebrate your 80th today! It’s so IMPORTANT for us to KNOW OUR HISTORY in music because of artist like #TinaTurner who KICKED DOWN DOORS & left them open for artist like MYSELF & MOST of your FAVS.’
Also on the clip were Pete Townshend and the Broadway cast of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
In September Turner talked to The New York Times about being retired for the past 10 years: ‘I don’t sing. I don’t dance. I don’t dress up,’ she said.
She toured for a long time: Here the siren showed off her toned figure as she performed in 1998
Turner then explained, ‘I was just tired of singing and making everybody happy. That’s all I’d ever done in my life.’
The Tennessee native got her start with husband Ike, but left him after she refused to take his beatings. The star had only 32 cents to her name and was in debt from canceling old Tina And Ike shows.
But in the 1980s she reinvented herself as a solo artist. Her comeback song was 1984’s Private Dancer.
New life: Turner was seen in New York City recently to take in the opening night of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway. ‘This musical is my life but it’s like poison that turned to medicine,’ Turner said. ‘I can never be as happy as I am now’; seen on November 7 in NYC
True love: In her late 40s she met her husband and they have been together ever since. In 1995 they moved to Switzerland
In her late 40s she met her husband and they have been together ever since. In 1995 they moved to Switzerland.
But Turner was seen in New York City recently to take in the opening night of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway.
‘This musical is my life but it’s like poison that turned to medicine,’ Turner said. ‘I can never be as happy as I am now.’
A fan: There was also a video where some of her famous friends wished her well. Ringo Starr said: ‘Tina is incredible. Happy birthday, Tina Turner! Peace and love’
Another legend: Ronnie Wood said, ‘Happy birthday from me, your Ronnie’
Another big fan: Missy Elliott also wished Turner a happy birthday, writing, ‘We Celebrate your 80th today! It’s so IMPORTANT for us to KNOW OUR HISTORY in music because of artist like #TinaTurner who KICKED DOWN DOORS & left them open for artist like MYSELF & MOST of your FAVS’
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