Tina Knowles Tears Up While Revealing Breast Cancer Diagnosis In Personal Interview

Tina Knowles is opening up about a personal health battle. The mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles revealed to Gayle King in a “CBS Mornings” interview which aired April 22 that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. “I was diagnosed with breast cancer in my left breast. I’m getting emotional because it was like, you know, I’ve always tried to take care of myself. And I just – I was in disbelief,” she shared. The 71-year-old had included the health update in her new memoir “Matriarch,” out now, which has been selected as Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick. King noted that Knowles had missed her mammogram due to the covid pandemic and forgot to reschedule it until last year. Doctors then discovered two tumors; one was benign, but the other was Stage 1 cancer. “It was Stage 1, which I thought was the earliest stage. And then when I told my sister, she said, ‘No, actually, there’s a zero.’ So, if I had gone for my mammogram, I would have got it at the zero stage. Thank God it was still very small, hadn’t spread. It was a very slow spreading cancer,” the businesswoman said. Knowles underwent a lumpectomy and shared how her daughters were by her side for support. The 71-year-old has since revealed that she is now “cancer-free.”