Tina Turner’s cause of death has been revealed after her death at the age of 83 on Wednesday.
The iconic singer, who was named the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, died at her home in Küsnach, Switzerland, where she lived with her husband Erwin Bach after retiring and relinquishing US citizenship.
It was now ruled that ‘The Best’ hitmaker’s cause of death were “natural causes,” though the exact nature of the “long illness” she had battled remains a mystery.
“Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model,” the singer’s representative, Bernard Doherty, said.
Throughout the years, especially in the last decade of her life, Tina battled a string of serious medical conditions including kidney disease, intestinal cancer, and a stroke.
For four decades, the rocker suffered from hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, which went untreated for many years after the got off the meds. The untreated condition eventually led to kidney disease, and Tina’s kidneys were operating at just less than thirty percent by the year 2016.
That same year, Turner was also diagnosed with intestinal cancer and forced to undergo a procedure to remove cancerous growths from her digestive tract.
The procedure, though successful, put further strain on her kidneys as it delayed her life-saving transplant for several months. When Tina thought she was going to die while on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, her husband stepped in and saved her life by donating one of his kidneys.
“I know that my medical adventure is far from over. There’s always another test, another doctor’s appointment or biopsy to get through. We’re both still here, closer than we ever imagined and that’s cause for celebration,” the singer wrote in her 2017 memoir.
Back in 2013, the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll also suffered a stroke that made her wake up in panic feeling paralyzed before landing her in hospital for weeks.
“I woke up suddenly and in a panic. A lightning bolt struck my head and my right leg — at least that’s how it felt — and I had a funny sensation in my mouth that made it difficult for me to call out to Erwin for help. I suspected it wasn’t good, but it was worse than I ever imagined. I was having a stroke,” she recalled.
“I didn’t have the strength to get up. Terrified, I dragged myself over to a sofa, all the while thinking that I couldn’t imagine Tina Turner paralyzed.”
Despite suffering a combination of medical catastrophes in the final years of her life, Tina bravely insisted she wasn’t scared of what else life had to offer.
“This is life’s full adventure and I embrace and accept every day with what it brings,” the musician said last month.
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