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Cher reveals Tina Turner asked for help on how to leave abusive husband Ike in heartbreaking memoir

Cher has revealed Tina Turner asked for her help leaving her abusive marriage to Ike Turner in the late 1970s.

'She just needed to talk and yell,' she said of the Proud Mary singer who had been battling a series of health problems, including a stroke, intestinal cancer and kidney failure. A brief romance in Knoxville with sax player, Raymond Hill produced her first son Craig - before musician and singer Ike Turner invited her to join his band and then his bed. Grammys, sold-out tours and even love quickly followed for Turner, who in 1986 began a relationship with German record executive Erwin Bach who she was married to from 2013 until her death.

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