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 even to the point where I remember Beyoncé went to the Oscars one year, and I did this fabulous gown with, like, origami. It was black and gold. And everybody was going crazy on the red carpet. And then when she said, finally felt comfortable to say, my mom did the dress, they said that it looked like I got the fabric out the drapes and made it for her.
Because it was like, you know, and it was so...
First of all, I hope that I made it very clear in the book that my whole life with Matthew was not filled with heartache, that there were some amazing moments also. I also had just lost my mom at 26. He knew my mom. I knew his mom. And what he was was so kind to my family. My family is everything to me. So imagine you losing your mom at 26. Your brothers and sisters are older.
They got their own families, and you feel so alone. And like, that's my best friend, you know? And in a lot of ways, he had an issue, but he was so kind to me. And it sounds crazy, because that's not kind of cheat on somebody. I think he had, you know, he had an illness, but we were a team and, you know, we had kids and we built a life together. We built businesses together.
We connected on so many levels. So I don't know, when I look at it now, I can't believe I stayed there for that long. Self-esteem issues, obviously. You know, those nuns telling me I wasn't good enough. So I was like, I'm lucky to have somebody that's successful and smart and better than me. Did you ever, in some ways, you think that?
Oh, yeah, at times, yeah. I think you do go through that when somebody cheats on you. And it also keeps you in a cycle of it's kind of like somebody slapping you in the face and then you don't get to recover. And then you get another slap in the face. You can't really get your strength up, you know. And there were times when I did get my strength up.
But then I would have these kids and I say, you know, I'm going to be by myself for the rest of my life because I'm not going to bring some man around my kids. You know, that was always that fear of protection. And I swear, every time somebody would start messing with me and he was my protector. He was always a protector. He's still my protector.
If something went wrong, I would want him on my team.
Because you all are grandparents together. Yeah, we're fine. I say in the book that I still love him as a brother. Even though the things he did, I knew that they were out of an illness. They weren't intentional. And that sounds crazy. I know I still sound codependent, but... I just know that he would take a bullet for me. And if somebody messed with me, he was right there all the time.
He was the person who always told me you could do anything. You could do anything you put your mind to. You can have whatever you want to have. I mean, he believed in me when... When nobody else did. Yeah.
He just told me that I told him what happened and he loves Richard also. And he was like, I'm very sad to hear that. And I said, but, you know, this marriage is not bringing out the best in me. And I... have finally found my worth, and I know that I deserve to be happy. I know I deserve for somebody to be happy when they see me and to celebrate me. And it's not doing it for me.
It's bringing out the worst in me, and it's got to stop. And he said, I mean, he was teary-eyed. He was like, I am so proud of you coming from a family where women stayed no matter what. And it's taken a lot of courage. I said, I'm doing this for my daughters too. So I want to set that example for them.
And he said, you're not only doing it for your daughters, but you're doing it for your grandson. Because you think that you're doing something to stay in a marriage that's unhappy, that you're not celebrated or you feel fulfilled. You are affecting your grandson too because he wants you to be happy and how he's going to treat the woman that comes along. And I never thought about that.
But he was just so supportive of me.
Well, that was after my divorce. And I was really nervous about it because I had been so engrossed in taking care of them and making sure that they were okay and not feeling worthy of, you know, just loving myself and taking care of myself or taking a day off. If I was in the middle of something that I really wanted to do and my girls called me, I would drop
whatever, whomever, and be right there. And so I felt like I had to have that talk with them to warn them. And I was scared of how they would react because, you know, you guys know, mothers are kind of taken. My kids are wonderful. They acknowledge me. They love me. They would do anything for me, but they do. Kids, it's a kid's nature to be a little self-centered, but
I told them, and surprisingly, they said, Mom, we're so happy to hear that because, you know, they were excited for me. They weren't pissed off about it. They were actually excited that I was going to have my own life. Lindsay, you have a question. Hi.
I am truly at peace with myself. I have never felt better about myself in my life. There's something about turning 70 that all of my mistakes and things, the shame that I had about a lot of things, I tell them all the time, and I don't know if I can say this, but I don't give a shit. Any more about what somebody thinks of me, what they say about me, I'm just protective of my kids.
So I don't want to ever do anything to embarrass them or make them feel bad. But other than that, what you say about me kind of rolls off my back because I... feel good about me. I feel good about taking the time for myself to look nice and to dress nice and to take care of me. I don't have any guilt or shame about it. So I feel really good about it. And I know that I made a lot of mistakes.
And I think if I had anything that I would do over again, it would be that I would have left the marriage way earlier because I still feel that I didn't set the greatest example in that way for them. I think you've done a pretty darn good job.
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