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=== Health problems === In 2005, Turner revealed he had been diagnosed with [[emphysema]], which required him to use an oxygen tank.<ref name="Adams-10-27-2005">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ike-turner-on-sex-drugs-and-rocknroll-512759.html|title=Ike Turner: On sex, drugs and rock'n'roll|last=Adams|first=Guy|date=October 27, 2005|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=October 3, 2011}}</ref> His daughter Mia Turner said, "He was too weak from the emphysema to do anything. He'd go in the studio for a couple of minutes and play a couple of bars and say he had to go lay down."<ref name=Carter-01-17-2008>{{cite news|last=Carter|first=Chelsea J.|title=Cocaine overdose killed Ike Turner, San Diego coroner rules|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cocaine-overdose-killed-Ike-Turner-San-Diego-3230877.php|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202052100/http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-01-17/news/17151576_1_cocaine-overdose-drug-abuse-turner-s-daughter|url-status=live|archive-date=February 2, 2013|access-date=October 3, 2011|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle (AP)|date=January 17, 2008}}</ref> Despite his ill health, he collaborated with Gorillaz on their album ''[[Demon Days]]'' and performed the track with them at the [[Manchester Opera House]] in November 2005.<ref name="NME-2005" /> After his death in 2007, Turner's autopsy and toxicology report showed he was taking [[Seroquel]] at the time of his death. The medicine is most commonly used as treatment for [[bipolar disorder]], [[Alzheimer's disease]] and [[schizophrenia]]. His ex-wife Audrey Madison claimed Turner was bipolar and that she was helping him with his illness, a claim supported by Turner's personal assistant and caretaker, Falina Rasool. Rasool said she talked to Turner about his bipolar disorder and witnessed its effects. "I would come in the room and see him change like a lightbulb, switch on and switch off. I did ask him about it. He said he made a song about it and we started laughing", said Rasool, referring to "Bi Polar" from the Grammy-winning album ''Risin' with the Blues''. "I know I'm bipolar....And I've been bipolar, but a lot of people is bipolar", he told her.<ref name="Christian-10-2008" /> However, Turner's daughter, Mia Turner, disagreed with this diagnosis and felt he was being overmedicated.<ref name="Christian-10-2008">{{cite magazine|last=Christian|first=Margena A.|date=October 2008|title=The Last Days of Ike Turner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA97|magazine=Ebony|volume=63|issue=12|pages=94β100|access-date=October 7, 2011}}</ref>
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