Tina Turner talks about her son's suicide

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Tina Turner talked about her son's suicide earlier this year.

Craig Turner was 59 when he was found dead in July at his home in Los Angeles, from a self-inflicted bullet wound.

S addressing BBC News, Tina Turner said that he seemed to be fulfilled in his professional and personal life after finding a new girlfriend.

"I still do not know what brought him to the brink," said Turner, "because at this point he had told me that he had never encountered a woman with whom he felt like that. "

"He brought her to meet me [for] his birthday in August. He had decorated his apartment that I had bought him years ago. He got a new job at a major real estate company in California, [which] he was very happy with it.

"I have no idea what attracted him down, with the exception of something that followed him lonely.I think it was some thing to be alone.

"But when I think about it, why did not he call the new girlfriend who gave him the lift?"

She added, "He was an introvert, he was very shy and I did not know either, except that now that I'm listening to our last conversations, I notice a change.

"The last times we talked, the conversations were different and I did not know that before the suicide."

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Turner also explained how his life has changed since his marriage to longtime partner Erwin Bach in 2013.

She wrote about her life in her new autobiography My Love Story.

Shortly after her honeymoon, she suffered a mild stroke, cancer and kidney failure. The doctors told her that she would die if she did not follow treatment for her kidney.

"So I said well, it's time … I felt like I was about 70 years old, my mother died at 84, my sister died at 74 years old and I thought it might be my time.

"In Buddhism, you accept life and death, I was ready, I just thought it was my time."

Since moving to Switzerland, she has discovered the means of assisted exit suicide and is registered there.

"Death is not a problem for me, I do not really mind leaving."

But last year, Bach donated her a kidney and she said she felt better than ever.

"I am happier than I have ever been in my life, I am happier than I would have ever thought that life would become for me," said Turner.

"So it means that most of my difficulties were experienced while I was young and growing up, and in the last days, when people normally suffer from old age and sickness, my happiness came.

"I'm really happy.

"I fell a few days ago and I broke something, so I was in a wheelchair and on crutches, so maybe I'm going through my period of sickness and I think it will take me to my 90s.

"I'll be there for a moment."

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