Nearly a year after the tragedy, the 79-year-old rock music icon said that she thinks her son, who was 59 when he died, is in a “good place.”
“I think Craig was lonely, that’s what I think really got him more than anything else,” Turner toldCBS News‘Gayle Kingin an interview published Sunday. “I have pictures all around of him smiling, and I think I’m sensing that he’s in a good place. I really do.”
This isn’t the first time Turner has spoken about the loss of Craig, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Studio City, California, last July, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coronerconfirmed to PEOPLE at the time.
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“I still don’t know whattook him to the edge,” Turnertold the BBC last October, saying that it was doubly confusing to her because he had recently started a new job and had found love. “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,” she added to the outlet.
Turner described her son as “an introverted person” and “very shy.”
“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,” she said.
After Craig’s death, Turnerspread his ashesoff the coast of California.
Turner reveals in her new memoir, titled “My Love Story,” that she hasstruggledwith suicidal thoughts of her own during her life.
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“At my lowest, I convinced myself that death was my only way out. I actually tried to kill myself,” she said, speaking of her relationship with abusive ex-husband Ike Turner. After taking dozens of sleeping pills and still waking up, Turner said that she “came out of the darkness believing I was meant to survive.”
And survived, she has.
In the interview with King, Turner said that now, she wants for nothing, and considers the troubles of her past behind her.
“I have everything,” she said. “When I sit at the Lake Zurich in the house that I have, I am so serene. No problems. I had a very hard life. But I didn’t put blame on anything or anyone. I got through it, I lived through it with no blame. And I’m a happy person.”
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “help” to theCrisis Text Lineat 741-741 or go tosuicidepreventionlifeline.org.
source: people.com
