After her last fight with Ike, Tina leaves the hotel with pumps on, then runs across the highway in sneakers.
Lorraine's jacket falls off her shoulders when she drops her children off at Ike and Tina's house. In the next shot, it's back on her shoulders.
Anna Mae learns of her name change to Tina Turner after the song is played on a radio in the hospital where she had given birth. In reality, however, Tina saw a vinyl copy of the song that showcased the name "Ike & Tina Turner".
At the Ritz Theatre Ike threatens Tina with a handgun in her dressing room, in reality Ike never threatens Tina with a handgun. Tina claimed Ike tried to send people to kill her and her associates after she left him.
The film depicts that Tina walked away from the divorce with only her stage name, this is in fact true, and she also walked away with two Jaguar Cars, furs, and jewelry. She also retained songwriter royalties from songs she had written, and also took responsibility for missed concert dates as well as an IRS lien.
In a scene dated 1968, Ike and Tina open for the Rolling Stones, doing "Proud Mary." The Stones didn't do any concerts in 1968; Ike and Tina opened for them in 1969. Creedence Clearwater Revival's original version was released in 1970.
A theater marquee announces a 1960 show starring "Otis Redding, Martha and the Vandellas, Ike and Tina Turner." The Vandellas were known as The Del-Phis until 1962. Otis Redding became a solo act the same year.
In the film, it depicts Tina's suicide attempt in 1974, in reality her suicide attempt actually happened in 1968.
When Ike and Tina are in the dressing room of the Apollo in 1960, Ike is drinking from a blue and white paper coffee cup with the famous Greek design. That design was introduced in 1963 by the Sherri Cup Company.
In the movie Tina Turner's firstborn Craig is depicted as Ike Turner's biological son, but in real life Tina had her first child at 18 years old with Raymond Hill who was a saxophonist in Ike's band.
When Ike and Tina are fighting at the pool, Ike's lips don't move as he shouts at her.
In real life, Ike didn't call her Anna Mae as it is depicted in the film, he called her Ann. Even after she received the stage name Tina Turner, family and friends called her Ann.