Tina Knowles shocked the Beyhive in a latest interview when she revealed that she was beforehand identified with breast most cancers. In a clip of an interview scheduled to air on April 23, Knowles opened as much as Gayle King concerning the second the docs found two tumors in her breasts, one which was benign and one other that was cancerous.
“I’ve all the time tried to care for myself. I simply … was in disbelief,” Knowles stated, getting emotional. “It was stage one, which I believed was the earliest stage. After which once I instructed my sister she stated, ‘No, really there’s a zero.’”
In line with the American Most cancers Society, ladies over the age of 55 ought to obtain mammograms each one to 2 years. Nonetheless, Knowles defined that she missed her routine screening in 2020 as a result of pandemic and didn’t reschedule it till final yr.
“If I had gone for my mammogram, I’d have gotten it on the zero stage,” she continued. “Thank God it was nonetheless very small and hadn’t unfold. It was a really slow-spreading most cancers.”
In August, Knowles determined to have a lumpectomy to take away the tumor from her left breast.
Forward of the process, she was supported by her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, and her niece, Angie Beyincé, who stayed by her aspect on the hospital, easing her nerves with laughter and TikTok movies.
“I used to be nervous,” Knowles stated. “And they also began simply joking with me. I begin laughing. I get out of my head. … Then I stated, ‘I’m simply so comfortable that y’all are right here.’ And I believed concerning the tune ‘Stroll With Me,’ which they used to sing on a regular basis.”
Earlier than surgical procedure, Solange and Angie sang the tune to her. “It’s about God strolling with you into one thing and defending you,” Knowles stated, tearfully. “And I went in there feeling identical to God has acquired me.”
However the journey didn’t finish there. Weeks later, she almost missed Glamour’s 2024 “Girls of the 12 months” ceremony after a post-surgical an infection left her weak. Her household, particularly Beyoncé, stepped in to discourage her from going.
“Mama, you’re not your self,” Knowles remembers the celebrity telling her, “Your well being is extra vital. Don’t go.”
Nonetheless, Knowles’ resolution to attend was intentional. “A variety of my life, I simply refused to be acknowledged,” she stated. “I’d by no means take an award. I’d by no means need the eye … and this was me saying, ‘I deserve this.’”
Standing in that room, she spoke not simply as a survivor, however as a mom, a girl, a pressure.
Throughout her speech, Knowles acknowledged the help of her daughters. “That’s why once I stated, you already know, with them, I might get by something, no person knew what I used to be speaking about,” she stated.
