Tina Knowles is laying all of it out inside her brand-new memoir, Matriarch, which formally dropped on April 22. Within the deeply private ebook, the powerhouse behind two of music’s most iconic singers will get candid about one of many darkest intervals of her life, which occurred whereas her well-known daughter Beyoncé was pregnant along with her first youngster, Blue Ivy. The movie star glam-mother additionally confesses to having just a few sneaky hyperlinks along with her ex-husband Mathew Knowles shortly after the pair filed for divorce in 2009.
Throughout an interview with PEOPLE revealed Tuesday, Knowles opened up in regards to the emotional toll that weighed on her when web bullies unfold a vicious rumor about Beyoncé faking her being pregnant with Blue Ivy in 2011. The momager and former hairdresser mentioned a sense of dread washed over her after a viral video appeared to point out Bey’s pregnant stomach flattening out as she sat down throughout an interview with an Australian media outlet. The rumors finally spiraled uncontrolled till Blue was born in 2012.
“My household is so treasured to me and infants are so sacred. So to listen to folks say probably the most horrendous issues and name my complete household a lie, as a result of we’d all need to be a part of that conspiracy and lie about one thing so sacred.”
Knowles admitted the expertise was particularly troublesome as a result of she felt silenced. Beyoncé believed that talking to the press would solely make issues worse, so Tina needed to hold all of it to herself.
“It was the worst as a result of I couldn’t say anythin,” she instructed PEOPLE. My daughter was saying, ‘No, you’re going to make the story larger.’ Nevertheless it didn’t go away for a very long time. It’s probably the most painful issues for me, that folks could possibly be that disgusting.”
Even in the present day, when rumors unfold about her household, it may be painful to look at, however she’s discovered methods to cope higher when points come up.
“I take care of lies on a regular basis. I’m coping with lies now, that I’m having, like, an invisible zipper at my mouth to speak about issues now as a result of there’s all the time these loopy rumors which might be on the market and, folks simply get to lie and so they don’t need to endure any penalties, you realize, it is extremely unhappy,” she added.
Tina Knowles stored “sneakin’” round with ex-husband Mathew Knowles after she filed for divorce.
Matriarch additionally features a bombshell confession centered on Mathew Knowles, Tina’s former husband from 1980 to 2011.
Contained in the ebook, the mom, who shares Bey and her sister Solange with the file govt, admitted to quietly reconnecting with Mathew a number of occasions earlier than their divorce was formally finalized.
After submitting for divorce in 2009 attributable to Mathew’s infidelity, Knowles revealed that she briefly reconsidered her resolution when her ex-husband visited her in New York Metropolis simply three months after she filed. In keeping with Tina, Mathew gave the impression to be making an effort to alter, which gave her a second of doubt.
“He’d modified after new counseling,” she wrote, in line with US Weekly. “I didn’t consider him, however he was persistent, proved he’d gotten assist, and as he courted me, I discovered myself falling in love once more. The magnetic pull between us, this cosmic wire I had tried to chop so many occasions, was stronger than ever.”
Knowles wrote that she started “sneakin’” round city with Mathew with out anybody figuring out—not even her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, for practically a 12 months. Nevertheless, in 2010, Tina got here clear in regards to the hidden rendezvous after an in depth name. Whereas the ladies had been in Galveston for Mom’s Day, they practically bumped into Mathew when he was with Tina at her home. He shortly rushed out earlier than they arrived, however Tina determined it was time to inform the reality. In keeping with the famous person mother, “Beyoncé was extra understanding than Solange.”
“They every beloved their dad in numerous methods, and I typically felt my youngest was a lot like her dad that she felt his moments of failing on a soul-deep stage,” she added.
You possibly can seize your copy of Matriarch now at a bookstore close to you or order it on-line.
