Tina Turner died believing her mum didn’t want her: ‘She didn’t want another kid’
Tina Turner died believing her mum didn’t want her. The late ‘Private Dancer’ singer, was born into relative poverty in Brownsville, Tennessee, as the youngest daughter of farm boss and Baptist deacon Floyd Richard Bullock and his factory worker wife Zelma Priscilla (née Currie), who went on to have Evelyn Juanita Currie and Ruby Alline Bullock, who was also a songwriter before her death in 2010 aged 73. Tina, whose death aged 83 from natural causes at her Swiss estate was announced on 24 May, said in her autobiography ‘I, Tina’ that she “wasn't wanted”, with her mother only staying with her f...