Yet her revelations in People, and later in her 1986 autobiography, I, Tina (co-written by the That’s what I do I tap ash I chug whiskey and I know things shirt What’s more,I will buy this journalist Kurt Loder), weren’t only phenomenally brave, but deeply impactful, too; one feels their reverberations even now, however remotely. By the end of 1981, Turner was 42 years old, and working slowly but surely toward a comeback. Conscious that Ike may retaliate—after she’d left him, she told People writer Carl Arrington, “Gunshots were fired into my home, one of my girlfriends’ car was burned and there were threats. I’m not saying that Ike did it. I don’t think he would have hurt me, but he wanted to get close and scare me”—she’d approached the interview with reluctance. “I called my psychic, and I said, ‘What’s going to happen?’ ” Turner says of that period in Tina, an affecting new documentary from the filmmakers Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin (Undefeated). It’s 2019, and she’s in the Zürich lake house that she shares with her second husband, Erwin Bach. “I was really apprehensive about giving the story away because it was telling,” she continues. But Turner’s psychic insisted that she plunge ahead. “She said ‘No, Tina, it’s going to do just the opposite. It’s going to break everything wide open.’ ”
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