*Tina Turner is opening up and recalling her reaction to the news of her son’s tragic suicide more than two months ago.
“I said I wouldn’t do it with anyone except Oprah,” she told the media mogul in an interview with Oprah Winfrey for O, The Oprah Magazine. During their conversation, the music legend shared the final conversation she had with her firstborn, Craig Turner, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 3, inside his Studio City, Calif. residence.
“At first I didn’t believe it,” Turner said of her reaction to the news of his death, “because not long ago, Craig told me, ‘Mother, I’m really happy now.’ He had a new woman in his life, and he’d just redecorated his apartment.”
However, she remembered something he said that stands out.
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“He said, ‘I just want to hear your voice and that laugh.’ He had never said something like that,” the songstress remembered. “I think that was his goodbye to me, but I didn’t realize it at the time.”
She continued, “I’m still trying to find out why he did it. Maybe something from his childhood followed him through life and was still weighing on him, and he just couldn’t handle it anymore. I don’t know.”
As noted by E!, Turner, is a Buddhist, and “According to Buddhism, you come back to earth and do life again until you get it right,” she explained to Winfrey. “I believe his next life will be easier. I think he’s in a good place.”
The November issue of O, The Oprah Magazine is on newsstands now.
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