Tina Knowles is baring all in her new memoir, even right down to the main points of her divorce from Richard Lawson.
The Cécred vice chairwoman not too long ago sat down for an interview with Oprah, the place she gave extra perception on an excerpt from her newly launched memoir, Matriarch. Within the guide, Tina recollects how supportive her good friend Tyler Perry was when she made the tough resolution to go away her marriage.
Knowles and Lawson, who had been longtime pals, bought married in 2015 and divorced in 2023. Whereas talking with Oprah, Tina revealed what she advised Perry in regards to the break up, saying that whereas the breakup saddened the filmmaker, he finally supplied his full assist.
“I advised [Tyler] what occurred, and he loves Richard additionally. He mentioned, ‘I’m very unhappy to listen to that,’ however you already know, this marriage isn’t bringing out one of the best in me.”
“I’ve lastly discovered my price, and I do know that I need to be blissful,” Knowles continued. “I do know I deserve for any individual to be blissful once 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 resolution 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 learn the way necessary it’s to worth and respect girls.
Now, it’s been practically 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 situation.
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 good friend,” she advised 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 resolution to go away Lawson, that wasn’t the case in her first marriage. In her guide, Tina is opening up for the primary time about his a long time of infidelity, leaving her with the tough resolution to go away the wedding after 31 years.
“I used to be caught on this dance with him, every doing the identical steps time 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 individuals did, I advised myself.”
The couple ultimately break up in 2011, with Knowles admitting it took her time to completely 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.”
