Tina Turner & Drugs

OP....desperate for attention and lacking in intelligence.

Nope, neither. Just curious. It seems so unlikely that someone living the life she did, surrounded by addicts, would have been a near teetotaler.

Crystal meth > Christina meth > Christina > Tina.

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Actually, I had wondered this at some point as well. She now claims she didn't do drugs or even drink but yet I remember her also saying she had to keep working to pay for all the Cristal champagne she drinks. Who knows

r5, I wonder if, compared to her rock'n'roll peers, she considered herself non-indulgent, but if the story would be different were she lined up against the general population. I mean, even the squeakiest clean musicians, as it turned out, were speed-freaks during the heights of their fame in order to keep up with grueling tour schedules, the necessary energy to perform and all the related meet-n-greet publicity events. Tina was touring 200 days a year for 16yrs (up until she left Ike) and doing dance routines every night that required marathon level energy. Seriously, watch some of those routines she and the girls do on YouTube and then imagine doing a hour of that every night for half a year -- while screaming your lungs out and having your skull cracked as soon as you ponied off-stage. If nothing else, it seems impractical for her to have been 'practically sober' amidst the chaos of her personal life, the environments one would find herself in as a famous touring musician, the life of anybody who was part of the counter-culture in the 60s and, maybe particularly, while playing Ramada Inn lounges in the late 70s.