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Tina Turner shot at Randy Jackson?? Ok, what happened here! LOL
According to The Jacksons singer a.k.a. Michael Jackson’s baby bro,’ Randy Jackson, and Eddy Hampton Armon – Tina Turner’s assistant of 22 years, Tina shot Randy in one of the wildest celeb’ feuds ever! It all went down in 1988…but it wasn’t until years later that they’d publicly confirmed this.
Randy Jackson reportedly barged into Tina Turner’s house and stumbled upon on Tina and this then-girlfriend, participating in what Randy insinuated as being some type of ‘affectionate’ encounter…and that’s when all hell broke lose. Tina has never publicly denied this incident.
The Jackson family is quite an interesting one to talk about, especially since each and every one of them has their own unique stories worth telling. However, if there was one story that makes Randy Jackson distinct from all of them, it’s that he was once shot by Tina Turner.
When he was asked whether or not that rumor was true, Randy revealed that it actually did happen.
As to why it happened, Randy reveals that he was actually visiting his girlfriend and he caught them both off guard.
While Randy randomly confirmed the incident, Tina never actually addressed it. It was her ex-assistant, Eddy Hampton Armani, that let people know that such an incident happened way back, by writing it on his 1998 book entitled “The Real T: My 22 years with Tina Turner.”
The incident allegedly happened in 1988, when Randy visited his girlfriend Bernadette Robi at Tina’s place. Robi was a good friend of her late son Craig, and the singer was fond of Bernadette.
They had such a close relationship, that Randy allegedly thought the two women were in a relationship, which is why he tweeted about catching them off guard.
In Armani’s book, it was disclosed that one night, Bernadette arrived at Tina’s house crying and traumatized, saying that Jackson was going to hit her that’s why she ran away. Apparently Randy was very controlling of Bernadette and forcing her to do things she didn’t want to do — things Eddy claimed were too horrific and shocking to mention in his book.
“I can’t go back to him. He knows my every movement, he follows and stalks me. I mean, I can come out of a food store or the gym, and he’ll be there, hiding behind something just watching,” she allegedly told Turner.
Remembering her own experience with Ike Turner, Tina told Bernadette to leave Randy because it would not end well and he was not good for her.
“Bernadette, let me tell you something. You’ve got yourself an Ike Turner, you better get rid of him.”
However, the more they talked, the more it gave Jackson time to figure out where Bernadette was. He ended up showing up in Tina’s house. When he wasn’t buzzed in, he allegedly jumped the fence and threw a pot over the window, jumping through the broken glass just to get in.
That was when Randy went to Bernadette, asking her to come with him and professing his love. At the time, Tina went to her bedroom to grab her gun, pointed it at Randy’s head, asking him to “freeze, or I’ll blow your brains out.”
Jackson stopped for a second, before lunging at his girlfriend to ask her to come with him once again. Tina then blew a hole over her roof then and there. Armani shared more of the thrilling yet frightening story, saying:
“Randy, his face a mask of brutality, charged straight at Tina like a raging bull. Still, in total control, Tina moved the barrel slightly to the side and fired towards the doorway. She pointed the gun at Randy.”
After that situation, Randy left the house through the broken window again, with Bernadette following him.
In the end, Bernadette never ended up with Randy, instead, marrying pro boxer Sugar Ray Leonard.