Tina Knowles, the mom of music stars Beyoncé and Solange, stated she knew throughout her first yr of marriage that Mathew Knowles was dishonest on her.
Knowles, 71, is on a nationwide media tour to advertise her memoir, Matriarch: A Memoir. Within the guide, the famous person mother talks in regards to the turbulent starting of her marriage.
“Once I went into writing the guide, it was very rigorously written at first,” says Knowles, 71, based on Individuals. “However then it was like, this doesn’t even make sense as a result of there’s solely, you understand, all of the constructive stuff. And there was quite a lot of positivity. However no, I didn’t plan on writing that. But it surely’s my story. It’s simply the reality.”
Tina Knowles says Mathew started dishonest virtually immediately
“There have been already issues in our marriage that first yr. However the suspicions I had would get washed away by the truth that our love was stronger than a misstep,” Tina Knowles wrote within the guide, based on the journal. “It was us in opposition to the world, taking over what life introduced us.”
The Knowles had been married in 1980 and welcomed Beyoncé in 1981.
Regardless of the euphoria that accompanies a new child little one, Mathew Knowles was turning right into a serial philanderer, Tina Knowles wrote in her guide.
Tina Knowles’s inside torment on whether or not to remain or depart
Knowles admits she was embroiled in an inside struggle of resentment and anger blended with love and loyalty to Mathew Knowles. However the infidelity and different marital tumult had gotten so unhealthy that by the fifth yr of their marriage, when Solange was born, Knowles writes that she contemplated leaving the self-made businessman.
She stated the wedding “was deteriorating sooner than I may presumably discover methods and even causes to make it work. even with the being pregnant. I had gotten used to those extremes — extremely joyous half the time as we shared life’s journey, then being disgusted and heartsick over how brazen his dishonest may get.”
Knowles opted to remain and supported Mathew Knowles, who managed Beyoncé as her profession because the lead singer in Future’s Baby started to blossom.
She was an enterprising businesswoman herself. As a proficient hairstylist and designer, Knowles was omnipresent behind the scenes creating Future’s Baby’s dazzling threads and hairstyles, which continued after Beyoncé went solo within the 2000s.
Whilst issues started taking off with the all-girl group, which included “bonus daughter” Kelly Rowland, the brazen and reckless dishonest endured, she wrote. And the matriarch was caught up in a relentless dance of nirvana over the group’s success and the torment from Mathew Knowles’ disrespect.
“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…However that is what married folks did, I advised myself,” Knowles wrote within the guide.
Tina Knowles particulars when she ended the wedding
The ultimate straw got here when Tina Knowles found that Mathew Knowles had fathered a love little one, Nixon Knowles, in 2009 with mistress Alexsandra Wright. Not lengthy thereafter, the husband additionally fathered a daughter, Koi Knowles, with Taqoya Branscomb.
Tina Knowles felt she was about to burst with fury.
“I screamed, ‘Get out! Get out!’ like he was some demon. ‘I hate you!’ …my world had exploded,” Tina Knowles stated.
“I used to be deeply unhappy, not about him however in regards to the marriage,” she provides. “I felt like I failed. I failed us, my children — myself.”
The Knowles lastly divorced in 2011. 4 years later, Tina Knowles married actor Richard Lawson, greatest identified for his position within the 1982 blockbuster Poltergeist, in 2015. They had been married for eight years earlier than separating in 2023 and finalizing their divorce shortly after.