Ike Jr. also stated that he and his siblings were raised by housekeepers “because my mother and father were gone 11 months out of a year.”
When the couple separated, “he did not want me working with her,” Ike Jr. told the outlet. “And he beat me in the head with a nickel-plated .45 pistol.”
Despite their tumultuous past, Ike Jr. said that he wanted his late father to be remembered as a music pioneer who, like others, struggled to get over his demons and vices.
