Tina Knowles
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321 appearances
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3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And I think in my life, when I look back on it, I realize that I stayed so long because he protected me and I didn't have that protection so much when I was coming up. I didn't feel protected. I didn't feel fought for. Oh, they've seen the picture.
I know. I'm like, is that funny? But no, I was, you know, and he protected me, and he was, and you know, people say, God, you stayed with him for 31 years. Well, all 31 years wasn't bad, y'all. That's right. It was a lot of really great times, and we built things together, and we were... very dedicated parents. And so we had a lot of good things, too.
And I don't have anything bad to say about him. I mean, I don't. I've forgiven him. And he's forgiven me for some times, because I'm badass teeny beef, so I'm not trying to act like I was an angel. I wasn't an angel.
Well, what I learned about me in my exiting is that, again, that message keeps reoccurring to me that I am enough because I realized that I probably would not have stayed if I had just taken the time to really look at myself and give myself credit for all the things that I had accomplished. I was just trying to survive from day to day. It was always some, you know, in therapy they tell you
and I've been in therapy forever, that if someone slaps you in the face and you're trying to recover for it and you get slapped again, you never can recover and get your strength because you're just slapped. I'm not saying he was slapping me, no, that wasn't happening. Don't start no rumors, but no. But I'm just saying like, it wasn't only my marriage, it was like my parents dying.
I lost my parents at, my mom at 26 years old. Six months after I got married, then I lost my dad two years later. And it was just one thing after another. It was always something that was happening that I was fighting. And I realized that my whole life has just been filled with challenges. And when you take the time to stop and convince yourself
that you are enough and that, you know, you're gonna be just fine whether you're with someone or not. Say that part one more time slowly.
You know, you will be just fine and you will get, it's called getting through it because you ain't gonna get stuck there. There's light at the end of the tunnel and you're gonna go through it and you're gonna come out on the other side. And whether you are you know, young or old, I wish I would have learned that lesson a lot earlier, you know?
About marriage and how I think that marriage is wonderful and I hope that it is in everyone's future because I think it's a beautiful way to build a life together but that the person that you choose to build it has to be on the same page. There you go. They can't be on a different page. But I think that love is wonderful. And I hope that everyone finds it.
But if you are not with a partner, I think you can have just as fulfilled, full of a life. And that is better to be by yourself than to be with somebody who don't get it. Yes. Or that's not so excited when you walk into the room that they understand that you are a prize.
You want to talk about what Johnny was, you know, by the time the girls got going really well, he was, you know, he was really sick. But just in my life since I was born, that was the person that I trusted more than anybody in the world that I felt like never judged me.
and didn't judge anybody else, and that was just the most creative, free person. Because think about being born in that time. Yes. If I was born in 54, he was born in 1950. He knew he was gay from probably three or four years old and how hard it was. But Johnny was my light. You know, my mama used to say, when Johnny farts, you got to be there to catch it.
And it was true because I just was there. You know, every day he was my best friend. And... And I could just be really, really free with him. Yeah, he was amazing. He could cook. He could sew better than anybody. He was the sharpest. He would make these beautiful clothes. And he would be genuinely himself in front of anybody, you know, and not hide any part of him. I was so in awe of that.
You know, how free he was. Yes, yeah. And he, you know, he came to work for me at the house. And, you know, it was the, even that gave me so much freedom because I knew that he was taking such good care of my girls. And they loved him. They adored him. He's the reason why, you know, there is a renaissance. And... He's a big reason why I was able to do those costumes and all of that.
He affected my life more than anybody else in my life.
Yeah, just, you know, I struggle. I have two endings to the book. And if you guys, when you read the book, you'll see that it's like an ending of the book. And then I go back and talk about my cancer journey. And the reason why I did that is because in 2022, I made my mammogram appointment. And right before it was to happen, COVID came. And they called me and told me,
you know, we're not doing them in person, but we'll call you when we start again. So in my mind, I just got so busy with everything else that I did not go in 23. When it came back, you know, around that time, I thought I had gone in 22, and then 24 came, and I was like, I got to go have my mammogram. I got to get all of my health things. So I did them, and...
And they actually found some spot on my cervix. And so I went back and had that biopsy. And it was fine. So I was like, I'm fine. I don't need to rush to have the mammogram. But I waited and waited. It was like five or six months before I went back. Not the mammogram, but the biopsy. And then when I went and they said, oh, you have cancer, I was like, not me. Like, it was so shocking to me.
And even though it was early stages, I went, I flew to Houston to tell my sister Flo, and I said, well, I have the first, you know, I have the lowest stage. I have stage one. And she said, no, actually, it's the stage zero. And it just hit me that I could have got this at stage zero. And I am so blessed because they still got it very early and I didn't have to go to radiation or chemotherapy.
Thank you, Jesus. But the point is, is that I could have kept going and not going. And it could have been stage four by the time I went. So I wanted people to think about that for a second. And I can tell you that one of the best things to come of this is on my Instagram, I can't tell you how many people said, I'm going to go get my mammogram. I've been putting it off for three years.
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