Cher Says She Visited Tina Turner Shortly Before Death

Cher is celebrating her remaining moments with Tina Turner.

On Wednesday, the “Consider” singer, 77, revealed she was lucky sufficient to spend some high quality time with the long-lasting singer earlier than she died aged 83 on Wednesday after a “lengthy sickness,” her publicist Bernard Doherty confirmed to PEOPLE.

Chatting with MSNBC following Turner’s dying, Cher informed of how she obtained to meet up with her outdated pal at her house in Zurich, Switzerland, and stated the late singer “was actually comfortable,” regardless of being “actually sick.”

“I began going to go to her as a result of I assumed, ‘I must put this time into our friendship, so she is aware of we’ve not forgotten her,’ ” Cher added.

“So all of us took turns going and spending time along with her and it made her comfortable.”

“[Turner] stated, ‘I can not spend an excessive amount of time,’ ” Cher continued. “Then 5 hours later we have been laughing like loopy…She was having an excellent time despite the truth that she was actually sick and never wanting folks to learn about it.”

Whereas the reason for Turner’s dying has but to be launched, she had an extended historical past of well being struggles relationship again to 1978 when she was identified with hypertension.

She then suffered a stroke in 2013 simply three weeks after she wed her husband, Erwin Bach, 67.

After experiencing disagreeable unintended effects from her preliminary remedy, Turner turned to homeopathic treatments, which solely worsened her situation and led her to have whole kidney failure.

Bach then donated his personal kidney to his spouse in April 2017. Whereas the process was largely a hit, Turner nonetheless skilled gentle signs which included nausea and dizziness, based on her interview with the European Kidney Well being Alliance.

Talking on Wednesday, Cher referred to the truth that Turner “had her dialysis machine in her home” throughout their meet-up, however added she remained “so sturdy” and “fought this illness for such a very long time”.

“However I do know, in direction of the top, she informed me as soon as, she stated, ‘I am actually prepared. I simply do not need to put up with this anymore,'” the singer stated of Turner.

Famously known as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, Turner carried out a number of instances with Cher within the Seventies. The powerhouse duo met whereas Turner was nonetheless married to her abusive first husband Ike, and Cher recalled Turner being “so free” when she ultimately left the music producer in 1978, after which era they “actually obtained so shut” as pals.

“I used to be so thrilled. You can simply see her with the ability to take a giant breath. Her new life was like a giant, recent breath,” Cher stated. 

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Chatting with MSNBC the singer revealed she was given a pair of “Tina Turner” high-heeled footwear as a present by the late icon, earlier than leaving her house.

“She was such a power. Actually, I believe she simply hit every part head-on,” she added in tribute to Turner. “She wasn’t about to cease. She won’t have received each battle, however she fought each conflict. She was there preventing for all of the issues she believed in.

“She gave me plenty of power typically, and I gave her plenty of power too.”