Tina Knowles is baring all in her new memoir, even all the way down to the main points of her divorce from Richard Lawson.
The Cécred vice chairwoman lately sat down for an interview with Oprah, the place she gave extra perception on an excerpt from her newly launched memoir, Matriarch. Within the e-book, Tina remembers how supportive her pal Tyler Perry was when she made the tough choice to go away her marriage.
Knowles and Lawson, who had been longtime mates, acquired married in 2015 and divorced in 2023. Whereas talking with Oprah, Tina revealed what she informed Perry concerning the cut up, saying that whereas the breakup saddened the filmmaker, he in the end supplied his full assist.
“I informed [Tyler] what occurred, and he loves Richard additionally. He mentioned, ‘I’m very unhappy to listen to that,’ however you realize, this marriage isn’t bringing out the most effective in me.”
“I’ve lastly discovered my price, and I do know that I need to be pleased,” Knowles continued. “I do know I deserve for anyone to be pleased after they see me and to have fun me. And it’s not doing it for me. It’s bringing out the worst in me, and it’s gotta cease.”
She went on to share that Perry confirmed unwavering assist for her choice to prioritize herself, bringing her to tears. He additionally gave her props for setting a strong instance not just for her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, but in addition for her grandson Julez, so he can find out how vital it’s to worth and respect ladies.
Now, it’s been almost two years since her divorce, and the 71-year-old is opening as much as PEOPLE about her courting life for this week’s World’s Most Lovely difficulty.
When the entrepreneur was requested if she is presently seeing somebody, Knowles confirmed that she is again on the courting scene.
“I’m spending time with a pal,” she informed the outlet, including that he’s a “very good gentleman. We’ll see what occurs.”
Whereas the matriarch admits that she has “not misplaced an evening of sleep” over her choice to go away Lawson, that wasn’t the case in her first marriage. In her e-book, Tina is opening up for the primary time about his many years of infidelity, leaving her with the tough choice to go away the wedding after 31 years.
“I used to be caught on this dance with him, every doing the identical steps again and again: He would cheat or act up, and I’d say I’d had sufficient. He would beg for forgiveness, crying and promising to get higher,” she wrote. “However that is what married folks did, I informed myself.”
The couple ultimately cut up in 2011, with Knowles admitting it took her time to totally stroll away from the connection. She tells Folks, nonetheless, that was not the case with Lawson. Ending her second marriage was made simpler by, “age, expertise, confidence, a number of issues.”
