Tina Knowles dropped her tell-all memoir, Matriarch, and some reality bombs! Beyoncé and Solange Knowles’ mom used her guide as a medium to set the file straight on varied wild tales her household had been subjected to over time.
“Now’s the time,” Tina stated in an interview with the Los Angeles Instances. “Individuals have so many misconceptions about my household, and I needed to inform the story myself and never have anybody else inform it,” she added.
In addition to being the mom of the Grammy winner and Solange, Tina can be a grandmother to their youngsters. She revealed that the thought for the memoir got here from her intuition to guard her grandchildren, together with Solange’s son Julez Smith, 20, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s youngsters, Blue Ivy, Rumi, and Sir.
She was apprehensive that sooner or later, they might learn the stuff folks wrote in regards to the household on the web, together with the “lies” and rumors. Nonetheless, the memoir shouldn’t be completely devoted to telling the tales on behalf of her daughters. “They’ve acquired their very own tales to inform,” Tina added.
One of many rumors she dismissed was that of Beyoncé’s faux being pregnant. She recalled how the weird story made her helpless.
“It was the worst as a result of I could not say something,” she advised Individuals journal. The pop star was accused of faking her being pregnant along with her daughter Blue Ivy, one thing Tina discovered extraordinarily “painful” to cope with.
She advised the outlet that her household are essentially the most treasured folks to her. So, to listen to and see folks writing horrendous stuff about them felt horrible. Tina thought that the remarks tainted the factor she thought was most sacred on the earth.
Within the memoir, she additionally particulars issues like Solange’s being pregnant at 17, sneaking round along with her ex-husband after their divorce and her breast most cancers remedy in 2014.