Tina Knowles recently reflected on her heartbreaking divorce from Mathew Knowles.
Beyoncé’s mother opened up about her complicated relationship with ex-husband Mathew, with whom she shares her two children. LA times Studios at the Fifth Annual Inspirational Women Forum & Leadership Awards.
Tina told me LA times“I was married for 33 years. I was with someone for 33 years and you can imagine how intertwined our lives were with Destiny’s Child and that career.”
The author shared that she was afraid to leave the marriage, saying, “I thought, ‘How can I untangle this ball of yarn? Because my life is so intertwined with my ex-husband.'”
Tina also revealed that she and Mathew supported their daughters’ creative ambitions.
However, the singer’s mother left her marriage and divorced Mathew in November 2011.
Explaining her reason, Tina said, “When I finally decided that I was going to get out of the marriage and that I really needed to get out of it, I fell into such a depression.”
“I didn’t know how to be solo without this other person who I had been with for 33 years,” she admitted.
Nevertheless, Tina began to rebuild her life at the time, adding: “I thought to myself, ‘I’m 59. Where am I going to get a man? I’m not going to the club.’ There were so many people below me who thought about not having a husband.”
With the help of her therapist, Tina said she “began to write down all the things that were good in my life and they far outweighed my life.[ed] the bad” after her divorce.
