Tina Knowles is now an open book following the release of Matriarch: A Memoir and got candid about the time she put both of her superstar daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, in therapy at a time when it was still heavily stigmatized within the Black community.
In a conversation with Oprah Winfrey following the release of her memoir, the matriarch of the Knowles dynasty touched on her decision to seek therapy for her two daughters when they were kids after she began to see a troubling change in behavior that worried her.
“I got so scared because they were, like, super close,” Knowles recalled. “Then all of a sudden, Solange was going, taking Beyoncé’s stuff, and Beyoncé was kind of being a little mean to her. And I had never seen it before. It scared me to death.”
Tina Knowles Explains Why She Believed Therapy Was The Best Option For Her Daughters
Knowles reflected on her daughter’s behavior at the time, revealing it was outside of the norm for her family, clashing with the peace and like-mindedness she wanted for her young daughters, telling Winfrey she noticed their change in behavior towards each other after Beyoncé became as what she describes as a “local star.”
“I saw the division,” Knowles said, adding that she saw members of Beyoncé’s first group, Girls Tyme, speaking down to Solange whenever they came to the family’s home.
“That defender in me said, ‘Uh, uh, you got to protect your sister,’” she said.
Knowles told the former talk show host that putting her girls in therapy was “the best thing” that she “could have ever done for them,” because the famous sisters “got close again,” and “Beyoncé started respecting Solange.”
Who knows, we would have never had the Beychella moment between the sisters, or Solange wouldn’t have tried to put hands and feet on JAY-Z for messing around on her sister.
Well done, Mama Knowles.