Tina Knowles is baring all in her new memoir, even all the way down to the small print 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 remembers how supportive her buddy Tyler Perry was when she made the troublesome resolution to depart her marriage.
Knowles and Lawson, who had been longtime pals, bought married 2015 and eight years later, bought divorced in 2023. Whereas talking with Oprah, Tina revealed what she informed Perry in regards to the break up, saying that whereas the filmmaker was saddened by the breakup, he in the end provided his full assist.
“I informed [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 the perfect in me.”
“I’ve lastly discovered my value, and I do know that I should be joyful,” Knowles continued. “I do know I deserve for someone to be joyful after they see me and to have a good time 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 her 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 vital 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 relationship life for this week’s World’s Most Stunning challenge.
When the entrepreneur was requested if she is at present seeing somebody, Knowles confirmed that she is again on the relationship scene.
“I’m spending time with a buddy,” she informed 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 depart Lawson, that wasn’t the case in her first marriage. In her guide, Tina is opening up for the primary time about his many years of infidelity, leaving her with the troublesome resolution to depart 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 might say I’d had sufficient. He would beg for forgiveness, crying and promising to get higher,” she wrote. “However that is what married folks did, I informed myself.”
The couple finally break up in 2011, with Knowles admitting it took her time to totally stroll away from the connection. She tells PEOPLE, nonetheless, that was not the case with Lawson. Cnding her second marriage simpler was made simpler by, “age, expertise, confidence, a number of issues.”
