In 2018, Tina Turner revealed in her 2018 book, My Love Story that she had suffered life-threatening health issues in recent years.
In 2013, three weeks after her wedding to Erwin Bach, she had a stroke, and need to learn to walk again.
Turner opted for homoeopathic remedies to treat her high blood pressure. Her hypertension resulted in damage to her kidneys and eventually kidney failure. Her chances of receiving a kidney were low, and she was urged to start dialysis.
Turner considered assisted suicide and signed up to be a member of Exit, but Bach offered to donate a kidney for her transplant. Turner had kidney transplant surgery on April 7, 2017.
On May 24, 2023, age the age of 83, Turner died at her home in Kusnacht, Switzerland after a long illness.