Tina Knowles Reveals How Beyoncé & Solange Supported Her Amid Cancer

Tina Knowles had her girls by her side during her most challenging moment. 

The Matriarch author recently shared that she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer and revealed her daughters Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, plus Beyonce’s longtime bandmate Kelly Rowland and niece Angie Beyincé had the perfect remedy for taking away the nerves before she went into surgery last year.

Spoiler alert: It was very demure, very mindful.

“I was nervous, and they just started joking with me and Solange pulls up this video of this young trans woman and she’s saying, ‘I’m very demure and intentional’” Tina, 71, said during an April 22 CBS Mornings interview about watching Jools Lebron’s viral video. “And we’re just laughing at it. And she’s showing me this. And we just look at it right before the surgery. I’m just laughing, and I get out of my head.”

“And I say, ‘I’m so happy that y’all are here.’”

In addition to the video, Tina said that her family was in perfect harmony about how to lift her spirits.