Singer Tina Turner was very critical of a previous biopic about her life. — Reuters picBERLIN, March 2 — Music legend Tina Turner is the subject of one of the most successful biopics ever made but she tells the makers of a new documentary there’s much more to her story.by Oscar-winning directors Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin premiered today at the Berlin film festival. It traces Turner’s six-decade career as an unlikely triumph over abuse and discrimination.
The documentary includes emotional interviews with the singer in which she recounts her childhood of grinding poverty picking cotton in the Tennessee fields, her singing debut with violent husband Ike Turner and her lonely years even as the world’s top female rock star.
“Nobody talked about sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic abuse, abuse period,” said Winfrey, who survived molestation as a child.Turner admitted that even today, she still has flashbacks of being beaten.Her German husband Erwin Bach compared her to a shellshocked “soldier coming back from the war”.
“I had a dream: my dream is to be the first Black rock’n’roll singer to pack places like the Stones,” she said.The documentary includes a shocking interview in which a record company executive is quoted using racist and misogynistic slurs to explain why he wanted to drop her from the label in the early 1980s.
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