"I Was In Disbelief": Tina Knowles Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

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In a new interview with Gayle King for CBS Mornings, Tina revealed that she was diagnosed with Stage 1 bosom crab past year.

Tina revealed to Gayle that doctors discovered 2 tumors successful her near bosom during a mammogram assignment that had been delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic and was yet rescheduled for 2024. "I've ever tried to instrumentality attraction of myself," she said. "I just…was successful disbelief."

Tina besides said that her doctors aboriginal informed her that, if she hadn't missed her screening, the detection mightiness person occurred astatine Stage 0, which is erstwhile the crab hasn't yet dispersed beyond the tissue.

Luckily, Tina was capable to acquisition a lumpectomy past August and is present cancer-free. She besides said that Beyoncé and Solange, on with respective of her friends, accompanied her connected the time of the surgery.

"I was nervous, truthful they started conscionable joking with me," Tina recalled, revealing that Solange played her the viral "demure" video to assistance enactment her astatine ease. Solange besides sang the opus "Walk With Me" on with Tina's niece Angie Beyincé earlier the surgery. "I said, 'I'm conscionable truthful blessed that y'all are here,'" Tina said.

Tina besides said that, pursuing surgery, she'd developed a superior corruption past autumn that astir prevented her from attending Glamour's 2024 Women of the Year lawsuit — and that Beyoncé, amongst different household members, urged her to rest. "Mama, you're not yourself," Tina recalled Beyoncé telling her. "She was like, 'Your wellness is much important. Don't go.'"

But Tina managed to be the lawsuit and springiness a code careless of however she was feeling. "A batch of my life, I conscionable refused to beryllium recognized," she said portion explaining the crushed wherefore she yet pushed through. "I would ne'er instrumentality an award. I would ne'er privation the attraction to me…and this was my saying, 'I merit this.'"

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