Mathew Knowles dismissed Tina’s work with Destiny’s Child, resulting in an uncomfortable interview exit.
Tina Knowles has been open in regards to the tumultuous nature of her marriage to Mathew, together with his infidelity.
Despite their troublesome previous, Tina and Mathew now have an excellent relationship and acknowledge one another’s contributions to their kids’s success.
Matthew Knowles was visibly offended by the concept each he and Tina Knowles helped get their kids to the place they’re as we speak.
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The father of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles walked out of an interview early after his ex-wife was introduced up. The interviewer, PIX 11 anchor Kendis Gibson, talked about Tina’s title in relation to the work each she and Mathew did with Destiny’s Child.
When Gibson referenced the work that each Tina and Mathew–who had been married for greater than 30 years–put into the woman group, Knowles interjected, “What work did she put in?”
Kendis, clearly caught off guard by Matthew’s response, answered by mentioning how Tina used to fashion the group’s hair and design their costumes within the early days of their profession.
Once these points had been talked about, Mathew agreed that Kendis was “completely proper” about Tina’s involvement within the group–which consists of Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams–by way of their “styling” and “imaging.” However, rapidly after agreeing, Matthew obtained up from his chair and mentioned, “We’ll cease now.”
Kendis laughed on the uncomfortable scenario earlier than asking, “Sorry, did I say one thing flawed?”
“No, no, no,” Mathew insisted, shaking the reporter’s hand. “We’re good.”
After the interview aired, Mathew informed Page Six that there have been a number of questions on Tina “when the interview was presupposed to be about” an upcoming Destiny’s Child tribute live performance. He additionally claimed Gibson arrived to the sit-down quarter-hour late, saying, “How it begins is the way it ends. It began on a nasty be aware, and clearly ended on a nasty be aware for him.”
“I politely ended the interview, shook his hand, and took {a photograph},” he informed the outlet.
It’s actually not shocking that Matthew’s earlier marriage appears to be a sore spot. Over the years, Tina has been open about her rollercoaster relationship with the document exec, which resulted in 2009 after she found he’d fathered a toddler outdoors of their marriage. While they briefly rekindled their romance after that, they broke up for good in 2011.
Tina particulars their on-again, off-again romance in her 2025 memoir Matriarch, writing about how she and Mathew “had been so good half the time” that it made it troublesome to depart.
“He would cheat or act up, and I’d say I’d had sufficient,” she wrote. “He’d beg for forgiveness, crying and promising to get higher.” And although he would get higher, “the identical factor would occur once more. But that is what married individuals did, I informed myself.”
She talked about that Mathew was a “great father,” but additionally famous that “He had points that didn’t make for an excellent husband then.”
Now that greater than a decade has handed for the reason that finish of their relationship, Tina says there are not any arduous emotions.
“We are on good phrases as a result of we did an excellent job,” Tina informed Gayle King on an April 2025 episode of her SIRIUSXM Gayle King in the House podcast. “We did some actually great things.”
She continued, “What I’ve mentioned time and again is that sure, I had some actually tumultuous, horrible occasions with Matthew, however I by no means questioned whether or not he beloved me or my youngsters.”
