Tina Turners Disclosure on her Kidney Disease Danger

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Just two months before her passing, music legend Tina Turner revealed the great danger her health was in.

The renowned ‘Rock and roll’ singer, who succumbed to cancer at the age of 83, openly shared her struggle with kidney disease on March 9, coinciding with International Kidney Day.

On her Instagram, she admitted, “My kidneys are victims of my not realising [sic] that my high blood pressure should have been treated with conventional medicine.”

She further confessed, “I have put myself in great danger by refusing to face the reality that I need daily, lifelong therapy with medication. For far too long I believed that my body was an untouchable and indestructible bastion.”

In a blog post for ShowYourKidneysLove.com, Turner explained that she was diagnosed with hypertension in 1978.

At that time, she admitted to not caring much about it and not actively trying to control it.

In 1985, she was prescribed pills that she was “supposed to take” daily.

“After suffering a stroke in 2009 because of my poorly controlled hypertension I struggled to get back up on my feet,” she wrote. “This is when I first learned that my kidneys didn’t work that well anymore. They had already lost thirty-five percent of their function.”

Eventually, she “developed a fatal dislike” of her prescription pills and convinced herself that they made her feel “worse.”

So without consulting with her doctors, she took it upon herself to “replace” her “conventional medication” with “homeopathic” remedies.

“Indeed, I started feeling better after a while,” the 12-time Grammy winner noted. However, she was in for a rude awakening when she went for her “next routine check-up.”

“Rarely in my life had I been so wrong. I had not known that uncontrolled hypertension would worsen my renal disease and that I would kill my kidneys by giving up on controlling my blood pressure,” she confessed.

“I never would have replaced my medication by the homeopathic alternatives if I had had an idea how much was at stake for me. Thanks to my naivety I had ended up at the point where it was about life or death.”

Turner’s doctors “made it very clear” that the “consequences” of her decision were “irreversible,” informing her that her kidney function “had reached its all-time low.”

Her “only option” was to “start dialysis,” which she underwent for nine months.

Tina, inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2021, achieved a career of selling over 100 million records globally. Her notable songs include the anthemic hit “The Best” and her solo comeback single “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”

The singer and actress received 12 Grammy Awards, consisting of eight competitive awards, three Grammy Hall of Fame awards, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.


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