Tina Turner's story is both heartbreaking and inspiring. Raised in Nutbush, Tennessee, she ended up becoming one of the bestselling artists of all time. But it didn't come easily, and her life was constantly haunted by abuse. Though most people are familiar with her marriage to Ike Turner, who was domestically abusive towards his wife, many don't know about her painful childhood.
Turner was not physically or sexually abused as a child (that we know of), but her mother's experience with an abusive boyfriend caused her to abandon Tuner at the age of eleven. This was a painful time for her and she has often spoken in interviews about how her mother never loved her. Turner went on to become a megastar, but she also had to endure her own abusive relationship to get there.