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Ike Turner's daughter insists her father never raped Tina Turner and says the violent scene in the movie of Tina's life - What's Love Got to Do with It - was 'fictionalized', in an exclusive, no-holds barred interview with DailyMailTV.

'That rape did not happen,' says Mia, 50, whose mother Margaret Ann Thomas was a former Ikette who became pregnant with her while Ike and Tina were married.

Mia, who is preparing a documentary about the iconic duo, lived with Ike and Tina together with her mother during much of her childhood. 

She says she did not witness any brutality on her father's part herself and has struggled to come to terms with her father's violence towards Tina. But not rape.

'Obviously I wasn't there that night…but after I saw the movie I called Tina's sister Aillene and said: 'What in the world?' She then called Tina and confirmed to me that it never happened.'

The film, based on Tina's first autobiography, was released in 1993. In the movie, Tina, played by Angela Bassett, is subjected to savage beatings by Ike, played by Laurence Fishburne. In one violent scene, Ike rapes Tina in their home recording studio.

In Tina Turner's official autobiography - My Love Story (2018)  - she describes years of physical and sexual abuse from her former husband and musical partner.

In one shocking passage Tina, now 79, writes: 'For me, though, sex with Ike had become an expression of hostility — a kind of rape — especially when it began or ended with a beating.'

Mia Turner, the daughter of Ike Turner and his backup singer Margaret Ann Thomas has broken her silence about her father's relationship with Tina Turner. In this never-before-seen exclusive picture, Tina is fixing Mia's hair at their house in Los Angeles in 1971

Mia Turner had a divided childhood. During the week, she lived with her grandma in Bakersfield, California, where she attended school, dance lessons and piano recitals. Pictured: Mia and Ike Turner at a recording studio in LA in 1972 in another rare photo

Mia says Ike never raped Tina and the violent scene in the movie about Tina's life was 'fictionalized' She said: 'Obviously I wasn't there that night…but after I saw the movie I called Tina's sister and she then called Tina and confirmed to me it never happened'

Ike, who died in 2007, denied raping and beating Tina in his own autobiography, Takin' Back My Name (1999).

But he admitted to hitting Tina during their tumultuous relationship which began in the late 1950s when the teenager, then called Anna Mae Bullock from Nutbush, Tennessee, grabbed the mic and sang along with his band, Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm, at a club in St Louis.

'Sure, I've slapped Tina,' he said. 'There have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. But I never beat her.'

Mia said: 'A high percentage of Tina's account has been accurate. When she signed off on the movie it was the way she wanted it, but it was edited heavily afterwards.

'We find out later it was tweaked. It was made Hollywood, so there's quite a few scenes, primarily the rape scene. It didn't happen. In Hollywood, sex sells, whether it's good, bad or indifferent.'  

Mia Turner grew up in two world.  During the week, she lived with her maternal grandmother in Bakersfield, California, where she attended school, dance lessons and piano recitals.

'My grandmother didn't want me to grow up in the industry,' she said.

But on weekends, Mia stayed with Ike, Tina and her mom, along with her four half-brothers, who all lived together at their home in View Park, Los Angeles.

She said: 'I didn't know any different. I wanted mom and dad to stop traveling so much. I didn't know they were touring and that they were making money to provide for us.' 

The 50-year-old's mother is Margaret Ann Thomas (far left), a former Ikette who became pregnant with her while Ike and Tina were married. Mia explained: 'In the early '60s, Ike asked my mother to have dinner with him and Tina. He asked her to be a part of the band. My mom said, ''Are you crazy? I can't sing. I can't dance.'' Tina was aware of Ike and my mother's affair. In 1968, she became pregnant with me.' Pictured Mia's mother with Ike and Tina in 1971 

Mia Turner spent her childhood in two worlds.  During the week, she lived with her grandma in Bakersfield, California, where she attended school, dance lessons and piano recitals. Mia stayed on the weekends with Ike, Tina and her mom, along with her four half-brothers, who all lived together at their home in LA. Pictured: Tina and Ike with sons (clockwise from bottom left) Michael Turner (son of Ike & Lorraine Taylor), Ike Turner, Jr. (son of Ike & Lorraine Taylor), Craig Hill (son of Tina & Raymond Hill) and Ronnie Turner

Mia loved growing up with her brothers, saying: 'There wasn't any favoritism. We grew up together, fighting over cereal boxes at the breakfast table.' Pictured l-r: Ike Jr, Liz the housekeeper, Tina Turner, Craig Turner, Toni Williams, Noris Williams, Mia Turner and Mia's mother Ann Thomas 

Mia continued: 'Every time they came home to LA, it was like Christmas, presents everywhere.

'I couldn't wait to go to Los Angeles. I wanted to be with Tina, Ike and my mom.'

Mia's biological mother, Margaret Ann Thomas, was a member of the Ikettes, Tina and Ike's backup singers, who had a long-time affair with Ike while he was married to Tina. 

Tina was born Anna Mae Bullock but Ike changed her name to Tina Turner, inspired by Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, to create a stage persona.

Ike had claimed to have been married 13 times and was open about his infidelities, which he estimated ran into triple digits. 

Mia said: 'My daddy still called her Anna Mae and he called my mom Ann Thomas. He had to differentiate.

'In the early '60s, my dad and Tina had played a hole-in-the-wall in Bakersfield, California. Ike asked my mother to have dinner with him and Tina. He asked her to be a part of the band. My mom said, ''Are you crazy? I can't sing. I can't dance.''

'Tina was aware of Ike and my mother's affair. In 1968, she became pregnant with me.

'My mother and Tina were best friends. They had diamond love heart necklaces, which was their friendship bracelet at the time. They were closer than close.'

Mia was born in 1969 in Bakersfield and originally named Cicily Rashale Turner.

Mia says Ike changed her name to Mia when she was eight months old. 'My dad did not want me to grow up and be called Sissy. He loved Mia Farrow, he was a big fan,' she said.

Ike had one biological child with Tina Turner (Ronnie, born in 1960) and adopted one of Tina's children Craig (born 1958 and fathered by saxophonist Raymond Hill). Craig committed suicide in 2018.

Mia was originally named Cicily Rashale Turner. Mia says Ike changed her name to Mia when she was eight months old. 'My dad did not want me to grow up and be called Sissy. He loved Mia Farrow, he was a big fan,' she said. Pictured: Mia's birth certificate 

Tina adopted Ike Turner's sons Ike Jr. (born in 1958) and Michael (1960) with his first wife, Lorraine Taylor. Ike later had daughters, Linda Trippeter and Twanna Melby. 

 Mia said: 'There wasn't any favoritism. We grew up together, fighting over cereal boxes at the breakfast table.'

Mia, who now  lives in Atlanta with her husband and two sons, says she never witnessed any brutality in Ike and Tina's marriage and remembers a childhood surrounded by laughter and music, rather than violence.

'They didn't argue much in front of me. When it came to rehearsals, daddy was the choreographer and composer, so they might quibble over things but I never saw him hit her. I'm not saying those things didn't happen, I just never saw that.

'Every family has yelling, cussing, fussing that's normal.'

Mia slips in and out of calling Tina 'mom', and says she really was her 'other mother'.

'Tina was like a second mother to me, I have a lot of love and respect for her, I still do. I was like the daughter she never had, we did everything together.

'There's one picture that gets me teary-eyed. I had been outside playing with my brothers, I was dirty from head to toe.

'Tina cleaned me up and while she was combing my hair, she said, ''We have to have a little talk. You are a princess, you are a lady.''

'I see the picture of her combing my hair and I go back to that little girl. It makes my heart sing.

'Daddy engulfed himself in his music. From what I saw as a kid, he was always laughing and joking and having a good time with Tina. To me our house was like Disneyland, we always had fun and we always had friends.'

In LA at the weekends, the house was full of 'aunts and uncles' – whose names read like a Who's Who of R & B royalty.

'Natalie Cole, the Gap Band, Chaka Khan, you name it,' Mia said. 'I didn't realize who they were, they were just my aunts and uncles.

'We had a good time playing cards, dominoes, throwing each other in the pool. There were barbecues and swim parties.

'We're running around like we don't have any sense. I can still hear Tina saying, ''Are you going to act like you have house training?''

'My mother and Tina were best friends. They had diamond love heart necklaces, which was their friendship bracelet at the time. They were closer than close.' Pictured: Ann Thomas, bassist Larry Lynch and Tina Turner backstage in 1965

Tina finally fled Ike's abuse in 1976 – escaping from the Hilton hotel in Dallas across a highway, after Ike had beaten her in the back of a limousine. Mia got a first-hand account, saying: 'My mother was in the car with Ike and Tina and we spoke about this several times. My mother said, ''Anna Mae, Ike's out, this is your chance. You're not going to get out if you don't leave now. Run and don't ever look back.'' 'And that's what Tina did.' Pictured: Tina and Ike in 1975 

'Old band members, new band members, perspective band members. Everyone would be in the studio and then come back to the house to eat.

'I can picture Tina standing in the kitchen, cooking dinner.

'People think icons don't do that but not in our house. Ann Thomas, Tina and our housekeeper, Liz, all cooked. Daddy was the taster. He would go to each pot and say we need more salt in this one.'

Mia was a child when one of Tina's most iconic songs was recorded.

'I was sitting on my dad's lap and Tina was in the sound studio doing Nutbush City Limits. I accidentally hit a key. My dad played it back and kept it in the song. If you listen to Nutbush, somewhere in there, you hear it.

'When they were doing Proud Mary in rehearsals, Tina brought me into the room with the Ikettes and I got to learn how to move like them. I thought I was on cloud nine.'

Mia's early childhood was spent around A-list stars of the time. 'When I was about four, Ike and Tina performed in Las Vegas. Daddy had the entire family there.

'Our table was in front of the stage. Bill Cosby comes on, calls me up and we had a little chat. He's telling everyone that I'm the daughter of Ike and Tina.

'Ike and Tina come out, I'm standing on my brother's lap and I'm screaming and waving.

'Tina does Nutbush. I'm dancing because she taught me the routines. We had an absolute ball.

'Another time, my dad and Tina were going to perform with Chaka Khan at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

'I had on yellow terrycloth shorts which were beige with dirt and I got in the car. My mom Ann comes running out of the studio, saying, ''She can't go like that!'' But Dad took me with him in the back of the limo with Chaka.

Ike died on December 12, 2007, aged 76, with the cause of death listed as accidental cocaine overdose, by the San Diego County medical examiner. But Mia is skeptical about her father's cause of death, saying: ''When the report said that he had cocaine in his system, I thought, he couldn't breathe much less inhaled crack out of the pipe.' Pictured: Mia with Ike four days before he died

Mia was 24 when the movie about Tina's life, What's Love Got To Do With It, came out. She was devastated by the portrayal of her father and began doubting what she knew about her childhood. 'When the movie came out, it took me 10 times to get through it. I couldn't do it'

Ike admitted to hitting Tina during their tumultuous relationship which began in the late 1950s when the teenager, then called Anna Mae Bullock from Nutbush, Tennessee, grabbed the mic and sang along with his band, Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm, at a club in St Louis. Pictured: The famous duo performing on stage in LA in 1974

'When we got there, we met Muhammad Ali. I remember he was flexing his muscles and thinking, this guy is great.'

Life changed dramatically when Tina finally fled Ike's abuse in 1976 – escaping from the Hilton hotel in Dallas, Texas, across a highway, shortly after Ike had beaten her bloody in the back of a limousine.

Mia got a first-hand account from Ann Thomas. 'My mother was in the car with Ike and Tina and we spoke about this several times.

'I was hoping she would say, I don't know. But she said that Tina slapped daddy, he went back [at her] and it escalated.

'Once they got into the hotel room, Ike was on the couch, passed out.

My mother said, ''Anna Mae, Ike's out, this is your chance. You're not going to get out if you don't leave now. Run and don't ever look back.''

'And that's what Tina did.'

Mia said that her mother, Ann, was left at the Hilton hotel from which Tina had fled to face an irate Ike.

'Later, Ike grabbed my mother and said, ''You allowed Tina to leave.''

'My mother said, ''Hell, Ike, I told her to leave because between the two of you, it's toxic.''

Mia continued: 'They were supposed to go on stage in an hour. He lost money that night because Tina wasn't there. He was furious. He stormed out of the room, told the band to go home. He just stayed and got high.

'My mother wasn't afraid [of Ike]. On drugs, he was unpredictable but my mother always stood up to him. She wasn't one of those women that goes, okay.

'Not that Tina was either. She'll stand up to you and go, bring it. I'm the girl from Nutbush.'

Ike married Mia's mother Margaret Ann Thomas (center) in 1981. They divorced in 1990 as his cocaine problem spiraled out of control. Mia said: 'People were coming to the house. He had bells on the doors and side gate. It was the paranoia, thinking someone is going to pop up in the house. My mom just couldn't handle it anymore'

Tina and Ike Turner divorced in 1978. She walked away from the marriage with nothing except the right to keep her stage name – and went on to become one of the most successful recording artists in history.

For Mia, it was a devastating time when she lost her 'other mom'.

'It hurt me deeply because I was still young, wondering if she'll ever be back. Nobody would tell me. My grandmother put me in more dance classes and piano lessons to keep my mind off of it.

'Tina and the boys left. My mom and dad left LA and moved to Mount Olympus. The studio caught on fire and burned down. Everything I knew was gone.'

Mia saw Tina once more as a child.

'When I was 11, my brother Michael picked me up to take me to the movies. We pulled up to a house and he said I have a surprise for you.

Tina opened the door and thought I was my brother's girlfriend because I had grown so tall and changed in the years since she'd seen me.

'I was star-struck for a brief moment and I said, ''Hi, mom.'' When she heard my voice, she said, ''My little Mia.''

'We sat there on a bearskin rug in front of her fireplace. We had greens, fried chicken, mashed potatoes. We laughed and joked. We had a good time. That was the last time I saw her in an intimate setting.

'In the '90s, I was going to school in North Carolina and Tina was performing in Charlotte. My grandmother and I went.

'I made my way up to the front of the stage. I had a childhood name for her – Dutta - that no one else used but me. The crowd got quiet and I yelled out that name. She looked right at me and smiled. Her keyboardist, Kenny, was gesturing that she was ready to get off the stage.

'I hurried through the crowd to her tour bus. But by the time I worked my way over there, the bus was pulling off. I stood and cried. I was 24 and I want to see my mom again.'

Tina was born Anna Mae Bullock but Ike changed her name to Tina Turner, inspired by Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, to create a stage persona. The two divorced in 1978. She walked away from the marriage with nothing except the right to keep her stage name – and went on to become one of the most successful recording artists in history 

Mia was 24 when the movie about Tina's life, What's Love Got To Do With It, came out. She was devastated by the portrayal of her father and began doubting what she knew about her childhood.

'When the movie came out, it took me 10 times to get through it. I couldn't do it,' Mia said.

'I asked my dad, ''How could you allow mom [Tina] to portray you like this?''

'He said, ''I signed off, trusting that Anna Mae would portray me correctly, not lying or tweaking anything. The real story. I got paid $50,000 that I wouldn't say anything afterwards.''

'I saw it in a theater in North Carolina and I'm thinking, who is this guy? It's not my dad.

'I called my birth mother Ann. She said, ''There's some things I need to tell you- there was physical [abuse].''

'I asked my dad how he could do this. He messed up two families.

'He said, ''Baby, I'm sorry. I regret the things that I have done because it was the drugs.'' I told him he was using drugs as an excuse. I have zero tolerance for a person laying a hand on anybody.

'People think I'm going to automatically protect my daddy. But wrong is wrong, right is right. My grandmother instilled that in me.

'I asked people who were around at the time if daddy did this. They told me that it wasn't just one-sided, the way that the movie portrayed him. That Ike and Anna Mae would get into arguments and they would smack each other.

'I'm not here to badmouth Tina, I've known her all my life and I still love her as if she's my mom. But I want everyone to know the truth.'

Mia said she has struggled to come to terms with her father's violence towards Tina.

Ike (with Tina in 1964) didn't drink or do drugs until he was 30 and then he fell fast into cocaine addiction in the early 1960s. 'Prior to this, daddy would walk the hallways [on tour] and if he smelled marijuana, you were fired on the spot. He was zero tolerance with his band,' Mia said

'It was part of their life. It is what transpired. I can't change the past,' she said. 'It still hurts on multiple levels. For one, they're both iconic and their life is plastered [everywhere].

'Daddy passed away wanting forgiveness - from Tina, from my mother.

'But he also wanted to be forgiven by just one person in the world. For just one person to say: I'm not condoning it but during those times, it was common. The difference was daddy's life was put up on the big screen.'

She added: 'Daddy was really depressed after the movie came out, he wouldn't go out. They portrayed him as a monster, a complete beast, but that wasn't the person I knew.'

Mia has never spoken directly to Tina about the rape and the violence.

'Once Tina left my father, all contact with the children that were outside [their marriage] ceased. I do understand because when you're leaving a situation you want to separate yourself.

'But I still had contact with her sister Aillene. [Bullock passed away in 2010, aged 74]. I called her and said you need to call Tina, I need to hear it from her. I also called my brother, Ronnie, and asked him to call his mother.

'They both got answers [from Tina] and I understood. The words were ''it felt like'' [rape] because Ike was high. He had been doing coke all day.

'He was high and it was not forceful as attacking, but it was not what you'd call making love. It was outside his norm.'

Ike Turner married Ann Thomas in 1981. They divorced in 1990 as his cocaine problem spiraled out of control.

'People were coming to the house. He had bells on the doors and side gate. It was the paranoia, thinking someone is going to pop up in the house. My mom just couldn't handle it anymore.'

When Mia was old enough to drive, she would sneak off to visit her father.

Mia said: 'Daddy was really depressed after the movie came out, he wouldn't go out. They portrayed him as a monster, a complete beast, but that wasn't the person I knew.' Mia has never spoken directly to Tina about the rape and the violence 

'Daddy was living in Watts [Los Angeles]. He had hit rock bottom when he got out of prison. I was sheltered so Watts was scary. Then he moved to San Marcos.

'He and I would go for walks on the beach. His circle got real small. It was either keep the old friends and stay in that life or start a whole new journey.

'He still had a few friends that came around from the Ike and Tina days. They would come once in a blue moon.'

Ike Turner was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1931 and his early years were marked by tragedy.

Mia said: 'There was a rumor that Ike's father kissed a white woman. A mob brutally beat him. He was bruised up, he was bleeding from holes in his stomach.

'My grandmother couldn't take him to the hospital because it was whites-only. The health department put a tent in the backyard. He got infected and had antibiotics but you could smell his insides within a one-block radius because he never healed properly. He passed away after a couple of years.

'To make money, my daddy collected cans and a couple of ladies in the neighborhood had chicken coops that needed to be cleaned out.

'One lady hired my father to clean out her chicken coop on a daily basis. He would go over every morning before school. He was about six years old.

'She started cleaning him up after he cleaned the coop and it evolved into her being naked with him. That's when the molestation started. This 40-year-old woman had sex with him.'

Ike Turner didn't drink or do drugs until he was 30 and then he fell fast into cocaine addiction in the early 1960s.

'Prior to this, daddy would walk the hallways [on tour] and if he smelled marijuana, you were fired on the spot. He was zero tolerance with his band,' Mia said.

As a child, Mia found it hard to grasp what was wrong with her father.

'Once Tina left my father, all contact with the children that were outside [their marriage] ceased. I do understand because when you're leaving a situation you want to separate yourself,' Mia said

'He dramatically changed – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He would snort coke, he would smoke it. He would stay up for days on end working, then sleep for two, three days. I couldn't understand. It took a toll.'

In a 2001 interview, Ike estimated that he had spent $11 million on cocaine.

'He would have powder cocaine on a dinner plate, it was piled high like a volcano. They would do line after line like it was nothing,' Mia said.

He went to prison in 1989 for cocaine possession but managed to kick his habit behind bars. He remained sober for more than a decade before he began using again towards the end of his life.

He spent his later life rebuilding his career, trying to move past the reputation as a violent, womanizing Lothario. His album, Risin' with the Blues, won a Grammy in 2007 for the Best Traditional Blues Album.

Ike died on December 12, 2007, aged 76, with the cause of death listed as accidental cocaine overdose, by the San Diego County medical examiner. He was also suffering from emphysema and COPD.

Mia said: 'My mom and dad became good friends later in life. She was there for his last days, helping him with his breathing treatments, making sure he ate timely.

'The older I became, the closer I got with my dad. That's what made his death so hard for me because the last month of his life, for the first time in my life, I was with him continuously.

'When he died, he was laying on the gurney and I began beating him. After a few minutes, I just laid my head on his chest and cried. What was I supposed to do now? But he was free.'

Mia is skeptical about her father's cause of death.

'When the report said that he had cocaine in his system, I thought, he couldn't breathe much less inhaled crack out of the pipe.

'I can't dwell on it but that's what the world wanted to hear - he was still being horrible, still abusing drugs.'

She remembers her father as a prankster with a big heart.

'One time when I was about six we were in the car in L.A., going up a hill and there was a Big Rig Truck at the light in front, daddy pretended the brakes had failed on our car and that he couldn't stop, but he stopped in plenty of time.

Mia said: 'Tina will always have a very special place in my heart because that's my other mother. If I saw her today, I would hug her and say, I love you and I miss you'

'My mom was like, ''damn it Ike, you scared me to death'' and daddy's there laughing and I'm on the back seat laughing too.

'One time he put Saran wrap on the toilet seat when my mom needed to use the bathroom really bad. He joked around a lot.'

She added: 'He was a stickler about music because that was his livelihood and his passion.

'He was a stickler in his ways for how kids should be raised, he believed in education. He encouraged me to finish college even though I had a son, he told me I could do it.

'Two years before daddy died in 2005, a man came to read the water or gas meter and my daddy invited him in to have dinner and gave him an autographed picture.

'The man said he had to get back to work because he had to support his wife who had just had major surgery.

'So daddy wrote the guy out a $15,000 check…he had never met him a day before in his life. Then he called the guy's boss and got permission for him to stay for dinner.

'He would pay off people's mortgages, he'd pay people's rent. That was the kind of man he was. People don't know that. They just see the brute on the big screen. He was kind, he was generous. He was a prankster. He was human.

'He would get upset and yell and scream and cuss, just like everyone else, but for me the good outweighed the bad.'

Tina Turner did not attend his funeral. Mia said: 'He wrote letters to her apologizing for any wrongdoing. But the letters never got sent because he knew she would never get it.'

She added: 'Tina will always have a very special place in my heart because that's my other mother.

'If I saw her today, I would hug her and say, I love you and I miss you.'

Mia, who works in hospital administration, is planning a documentary series to tell what she says is 'the real story' of her father and to highlight his musical legacy.

'We plan to film in Clarksdale, St. Louis and LA. I'm not going to portray him as an innocent angel, but he will not be portrayed as 'the beast' either.

'People will see the true story of Ike Turner.'