Tina Knowles has recently reflected on her heartbreaking divorce with Mathew Knowles.
Beyonce’s mother opened up about her complicated relationship with former husband Mathew, with whom, she shares her two children, at LA Times Studios at Fifth Annual Inspirational Women Forum & Leadership Awards.
Tina told the LA Times, “I was married for 33 years. I’d been with someone for 33 years and you can imagine how intertwined our lives were with Destiny’s Child and that career.”
The author shared she was afraid of leaving the marriage, saying, “I thought, ‘How do 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 aspirations.
However, the singer’s mother left her marriage and divorced Mathew in November 2011.
Explaining her reason, Tina pointed out, “When I finally decided that I would get out of the marriage and I really needed to get out of it, I went 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 started rebuilding 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 was so much of me that was thinking about the fact that I didn’t have a man.”
With the help of her therapist, Tina mentioned that she began to “write out all of the things that were good in my life and they far outweigh[ed] the bad” following her divorce.
