Turning with root animation

I bought an asset that has root animation but I can't get the model to turn for the life of me. The only advise I can find is for the 2019 version of baking into pose (I'm using 2018), and nothing I try works. I've tried turning the rigid body, having an empty as parent and turning the empty, but nothing works it just stays there and does the animation. Is there a way to turn off the root animation and just turn the game object or rigid body if need be?
PLEASE HELP.

 

it should work, even rotating the animated character with rootmotion
(might be baking is your problem. if baked, it keeps original rotations of the animation)
post screenshot of your settings