This week, the singer’s son Ronnie died, which was announced on Instagram by his wife, Afida. He was 62.
“My god Ronnie Turner was a true angel with a big soul and a lot of spirituality. He was my husband, my best friend, my baby, and my nurse. I did everything I could to save you this time, but I couldn’t,” Afida wrote in the caption of a slideshow of photos of her late husband.
“This is a tragedy with your brother Craig, your father Ike Turner, and your mother Aline rest in paradise so unfair.”
Sources in law enforcement told TMZ that they got an emergency call from someone who said Ronnie was struggling to breathe. After a few minutes, Ronnie stopped breathing for good.
The paramedics tried CPR, but it didn’t work, and Ronnie was said to be dead at the scene.
Turner, who is 83 years old, didn’t answer Page Six’s request for comment right away.
Even though we don’t know what caused Ronnie’s untimely death, we do know that he had been sick for a while, including with cancer.
Turner is the mom of four kids. Her oldest son, Craig, killed himself with a gunshot wound in July 2018 when he was 59 years old.
Turner told Gayle King in an interview a year later, “I think Craig was lonely. That’s what I think really got him more than anything else.” “I have pictures of him smiling all over my house, and I feel like he’s in a good place. I mean it.”
Turner was 18 years old when Craig was born. When she married her second husband, Ike Turner, he became his son. Raymond Hill, who was his real father, played saxophone in a band called Kings of Rhythm.
Later, the singer of “Best” told the “New York Times” that she had a “terrible life” because of all the abuse she got from Ike and the crimes she fought.
She said, “I had a terrible life.” “I just kept going. You just keep going and hope that something will come.”
She added, “This came” as she pointed to her fancy home in Switzerland, Chateau Algonquin.
