Cher once gave Tina Turner some life-changing advice.

In her new memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part Oneon Nov. 19, the actress-singer, 78, writes that Turner once came to her and asked her for advice on how to leave her husband Ike Turner.

In the book, Cher remembers Turner coming The Sonny & Cher Show twice with the musician Ike, and they became friends. During one of the days they filmed the show, the “Private Dancer” artist asked Mermaids star for some makeup to cover a bruise on her arm.

She then asked Cher how she left Sonny Bonowhom she married in 1969 and divorced in 1975 and claims once “manhandled” her in the book.

“I looked at her and told her I just walked out and kept walking,” writes the “Believe” singer.

Cher recalls that while they were rehearsing, Ike “didn’t smile once” and played guitar “without any emotion.”

“I just knew what he was feeling wasn’t good,” she writes.

Turner married Ike in 1962 and they divorced in 1976. For much of the 1960s and 70s, they performed together as the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

In one interview with PEOPLE from December 1981, Turner opened up approx her violent marriage to Ike and how she escaped it.

“I lived a life in death,” she said. “I didn’t exist. I wasn’t afraid that he would kill me when I left, because I was already dead. When I went out, I didn’t look back.”

Turner recalled feeling like “just a shadow” in the mid-1960s during their Ike & Tina Turner Revue success, telling PEOPLE, “Ike took care of everything — the sound, the band, hiring people, management and money” while she was expected to make breakfast for the band at 4 in the morning

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Later in their marriage, she found strength in studying and practicing Buddhism. But Ike’s physical abuse worsened.

“When Ike saw me chant,” Turner said of his ex, who died at age 76 in 2007, “the veins in his face popped out. He didn’t want to hear about anything that would give me power.”

Although she said Ike could be “very loving,” it didn’t come without strings.

“He helped a lot of people in trouble. But you owed him your life. He didn’t give freely,” Turner — who died in 2023 at the age of 83 — said.

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