Music legend Tina Turner‘s cause of death has been confirmed.
As news of the rock icon’s death spread, her representative confirmed that she died of natural causes, according to the Daily Mail.
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Turner died “peacefully” at the age of 83 in her home in Switzerland on Wednesday 24 March.
The Proud Mary singer had suffered a number of health issues in recent years leading up to her passing including cancer, a stroke and kidney failure.
The star lived seven years longer than she expected, having had faced the possibility of death previously.
In 2016, Turner had a stroke and was diagnosed with intestinal cancer. Her kidneys soon began to fail, and the decline of her health made her life incredibly difficult.
“I couldn’t eat. I was surviving but not living. I began to think about death,” the singer wrote in her 2018 autobiography Tina Turner: My Love Story.
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At 77, Turner was unlikely to receive an organ donation and would have to undergo the painful process of dialysis instead. She revealed in her memoir that she signed up to an assisted suicide organisation as she mentally prepared herself for the possibility of death.
Her husband Erwin Bach, however, stepped in to donate his kidney to her.
“He said he didn’t want another woman, or another life,” Turner recalled. “He said he wanted to give me one of his kidneys.”
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The couple underwent transplant surgery in 2017, and it was successful.
“The best moment was when Erwin came rolling into my room in his wheelchair,” wrote Turner.
“He somehow managed to look good, even handsome, as he greeted me with an energetic: ‘Hi darling!’ I was so emotional – happy, overwhelmed, and relieved that we’d come through this alive.”
The couple met in 1986 at Dusseldorf Airport, moved to Switzerland together in 1995, and finally got married in July 2013 after a 27-year-long relationship.
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