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Tina Turner wants to help Amy Winehouse. The ‘Simply the Best’ singer - whose ex-husband Ike Turner battled various drug addictions - says ‘Rehab’ star Amy needs to kick her habit.

Tina, 68, who is currently planning her comeback tour, said: “My view of Amy is that her problems started before her success. And the drugs are making it hard for her to deal with everything. When you take drugs that feeling passes and you have nothing. I don’t even know if you can remember what that feeling was. You get nothing from drugs except a feeling and bad health.”

Tina claims 24-year-old Amy can enjoy a long and successful career - but only if she cleans up her act. She added: “If she was clean now she would be celebrating now because she is wonderful. Her voice is absolutely timeless.”

After the news that Ike Turner had passed away I doubt the first thing his former wife did was collapse in floods of tears. Despite being married for 16 years, the abuse that Tina Turner suffered at his hands is sure to have taken all the love away.

So it is no shock to hear that the attendance list of Ike’s funeral will not include Tina.

One friend said: “Tina hasn’t seen Ike for 35 years and last time she did see him he treated her appallingly, so there’s no way she will be going to the service to pay tribute to him.”

Anyone who thinks this is wrong obviously hasn’t seen the Tina and Ike movie. I applaud the woman. Why should she attend? Ike is in her past and Tina has become a legend in her own right; not only in the music industry but in women’s hearts everywhere.