Angela Bassett Shares the Powerful Last Words Tina Turner Said to Her

Following Tina Turner’s decease astatine property 83 connected Wednesday (May 24), Angela Bassett took to Instagram to stock a heartbreaking tribute to nan philharmonic icon.

“How do we opportunity farewell to a female who owned her symptom and trauma and utilized it arsenic a intends to thief alteration nan world? Through her courageousness successful telling her story, her committedness to enactment nan people successful her life, nary matter nan sacrifice, and her determination to carve retired a abstraction successful stone and rotation for herself and for others who look for illustration her, Tina Turner showed others who lived successful fearfulness what a beautiful early filled pinch love, compassion, and state should look like,” nan character wrote alongside a photograph of nan duo laughing.

Bassett portrayed nan stone n’ rotation trailblazer successful nan 1993 film What’s Love Got to Do With It, which secured her a champion character Academy Award information successful 1994. In her post, nan prima shared nan heartwarming “final words” Turner shared pinch her. “You ne'er mimicked me. Instead, you reached heavy into your soul, recovered your soul Tina, and showed her to nan world,” Bassett said “The Best” vocalist told her, adding, “I shall clasp these words adjacent to my bosom for nan remainder of my days. I americium honored to person known Tina Turner. I americium humbled to person helped show her to nan world. So connected today, while we mourn nan nonaccomplishment of this iconic sound and presence, she gave america much than we could person ever asked. She gave america her full self.”

Turner’s official Instagram account confirmed nan news of her decease successful a connection earlier successful nan day. “It is pinch awesome sadness that we denote nan passing of Tina Turner. With her euphony and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans astir nan world and inspired nan stars of tomorrow,” nan caption read. “Today we opportunity goodbye to a beloved friend who leaves america each her top work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes retired to her family. Tina, we will miss you dearly.”

See beneath for Bassett’s tribute.