Tina Knowles noticed the writing on the wall — and now, she’s opening up about why she selected to put her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, in remedy once they have been youngsters.
Whereas talking with Oprah Winfrey on Friday, the “Matriarch” creator mirrored on her determination to hunt remedy for her daughters throughout a time when it was extensively seen as unconventional.
“I think this is so interesting, that you put your daughters in therapy at a very young age, at a time when it was considered taboo, especially in the Black community,” Winfrey stated.
Winfrey famous that one among Tina Knowles’ siblings believed that she would make her daughters “crazy” by having them partake in remedy, however the mom had a distinct mindset.
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“I got so scared because they were, like, super close,” Knowles remembered. “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.”
She famous that this conduct was fully unfamiliar — and clashed with the concord she had all the time envisioned for her daughters. In line with Knowles, the shift got here after Beyoncé started performing and was changing into what she described as a “local star.”
“I saw the division,” Knowles stated, including that members of Beyoncé’s early lady group, Women Tyme, would speak all the way down to Solange each time they came visiting to the household’s home.
“That defender in me said, ‘Uh, uh, you got to protect your sister,’” she recalled.
Ultimately, Knowles stated that selecting remedy was “the best thing” she “could have ever done for them,” as a result of the sisters finally “got close again,” and “Beyoncé started respecting Solange.”
