Tarja Turunen addresses the legal aftermath of her 2005 split from Nightwish

Tarja Turunen discussed her breakup with Nightwish in 2005 in a recent interview with Metal Hammer magazine in the United Kingdom, as per Blabbermouth.

It’s very sad how everything ended up [with Nightwish], but the thing that I would have done differently is, I probably should have put them through hell. I had all my rights, there were contracts, and they would have been in deep shit for a long time if I had done that, according to my rights, but I didn’t. I just decided to move on and leave.

What followed was their really great planning, how they wanted to destroy me publicly. That was something I never expected. It was nasty. It was an insane period [after the split], and in a small country like Finland, my face was covering the tabloids for three weeks or so, I left my home country. I had to. I went down to Buenos Aires.

It was tough, because it affected so many more people than just me, it affected my family, my friends. Everybody was destroyed. It took me a long time to gain trust in people again. But luckily, I have amazing relationships and a long-lasting marriage with my husband. My family, my friends were there for me in that very hard period.

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