Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles has revealed her secret battle with stage 1 breast cancer. Stage 1 means the cancer hasn’t spread to nearby lymph nodes or other organs in the body.
In an interview with Gayle King on CBS Mornings, Knowles said she was recently diagnosed with the disease after doctors discovered 2 tumors in her breast during a mammogram.
One tumor was non-cancerous and the other was stage 1.
Knowles, 71, said she missed her mammogram appointment during the pandemic in 2020. Otherwise, doctors would have found the cancer sooner.
Knowles said she shared her diagnosis with her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, and a few close friends. She said they lifted her spirits while she was hospitalized for surgery.
“I was nervous,” she told Gayle King. “And so they started just joking with me.”
She said Solange played a viral video about the word “demure” to cheer her up before the surgery.
“I start laughing. I get out of my head… Then I said, ‘I’m just so happy that y’all are here.'”
“And I thought about the song ‘Walk With Me,’ which they used to sing all the time,” she said.
Tina Knowles reveals her breast cancer diagnosis to @GayleKing, detailing the nerve-wracking moments leading up to her lumpectomy — and the special song her girls sang to her in the hospital: "I just went in there feeling just like God has got me."
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— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) April 22, 2025
Knowles said her niece Angie Beyince sang the song to her before one operation where she had one of the tumors removed.
“It’s about God walking with you into something and protecting you,” Knowles said through tears. “And I went in there feeling just like God has got me.”
Tina Knowles on CBS Mornings discussing New Memoir #Matriarch pic.twitter.com/FgICSMfRWA
— Mela Yela (@melayelamedia) April 22, 2025
