Tina Turner, who has had to deal with the untimely passing of her 59 year old son, Raymond Craig, earlier this year, is finally opening up about it all.
Craig Turner had taken his own life with a gun on the 3rd of July this year at his home in Studio City, California. Los Angeles Medical Examiner had stated that he died from a self-inflicted gun-shot wound.
For Tina, it is still hard to understand her son’s suicidal tendency – as she insists that he had so much going around him at that point and had even fallen in love recently.
In a recent interview with BBC News, the eccentric performer stated that she still can’t fathom what exactly drove her son to the edge.
“I still don’t know what took him to the edge because at that stage he had said to me that he had never met a woman that he felt that way about. He was bringing her to meet me [for] his birthday in August. He had decorated his apartment that I bought him years ago. He had gotten a new job with a prominent real estate company in California, [which] he was very happy with.”
Attempting to put the pieces together, Tina suspects if Craig suffered from loneliness prior to his suicide:
“I think it was something with being alone. But when I think that, why didn’t he call the new girlfriend that give him the lift? He was an introverted person. He was very shy, so I didn’t know either, except now when I listen back to our last conversations, I notice a change. The last few times we talked, the conversations were different, and I didn’t know that until after the suicide.”
In a heartbreaking image, after her son’s untimely demise, Tina was earlier spotted scattering his ashes off the coast of California – something which she referenced as ‘the saddest moment of her life as a mother.’
My saddest moment as a mother. On Thursday, July 19 2018, I said my final goodbye to my son, Craig Raymond Turner, when I gathered with family and friends to scatter his ashes off the coast of California. He was fifty-nine when he died so tragically, but he will always be my baby pic.twitter.com/XzZQCdz8tl
— TinaTurner (@LoveTinaTurner) July 27, 2018
“My saddest moment as a mother. On Thursday, July 19 2018, I said my final goodbye to my son, Craig Raymond Turner, when I gathered with family and friends to scatter his ashes off the coast of California. He was fifty-nine when he died so tragically, but he will always be my baby”