In a July 2022 interview with The Telegraph, P.P. Arnold discussed her newly published memoir, “Soul Survivor: The Autobiography,” and relayed some extremely dark moments from her career, including being sexually assaulted by her boss, Ike Turner, who trapped her in a room and raped her. This is the first time Arnold has discussed the attack publicly, telling The Telegraph, “What can I say? It was awful. I despised Ike on that level, but I didn’t know how to express myself. I was told Tina wanted to get rid of me because Ike was after me. If I had ran to Tina or called my parents, it would have meant I would have to come home.” 

Home meant going back to her abusive husband, about whom she said, “He would never hit me on the face because he wouldn’t want my parents to know that he was beating me. I didn’t go to my parents with it. I just dealt with it.” Arnold’s father had also physically abused her when she was a child. Says Arnold, “Sadly it was the way it was back then. I think it’s a lot to do with slavery and how that affected the Black man’s psyche.”

When the Ike & Tina Turner Revue got to London, Arnold met and became involved with none other than Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, who convinced her to leave the Ikettes and go solo. Arnold became romantically entangled with Jagger and his then-partner, Marianne Faithfull.

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