Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, has spoken declared for the first time about when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
The details of the health scare are revealed in her new book, “Matriarch: A Memoir.”
Knowles discovered the illness during a mammogram appointment that had been delayed for several years.
“My doctor told me I had breast cancer,” she wrote.
“A small tumour in my left breast that was cancerous; the larger tumour in my right breast was benign, but it would also have to go.
“She said I was Stage 1A, assuring me my prognosis was good. The next step was to talk to an oncologist and a breast surgeon.”
Knowles waited until the day of the diagnosis to share the news with Beyoncé.
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“She took it well, staying positive, and I could already feel her mind racing, focusing on this as a task to tackle with precision,” she said of how Beyoncé reacted to her breast cancer diagnosis.
She would find me the top specialist, and I distinctively remember her telling me, ‘I want you to get a second opinion on whatever the course of treatment is’,” Knowles added.
Knowles said her superstar daughter “lined up one of the top breast surgery specialists in the country” for her to get a private consultation.
After the surgery, which also included a breast reduction, Knowles wrote that she was cancer-free.
Beyoncé has received her first ever win for Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
She secured a triumphant win at the 2025 Grammys with her country album, ‘Cowboy Carter’ clinching the Album of the Year award on Sunday February 2nd.
Beyoncé becomes the first black woman to win ‘Album of the Year’ at the Grammys this century.
She is the first black woman to win ‘Album of the Year’ at the Grammys since Lauryn Hill in 1999.
‘Cowboy Carter’ also won the Best Country Album of the Year, making Beyoncé the first black woman to win a Grammy award in a country category in over 50 years.
Beyoncé has extended her record as the most awarded in the Grammys’ history with a total of 35 awards.
Last year, her husband Jay-Z openly criticised the Recording Academy’s sense of judgment, pointing out that despite Beyoncé being the most awarded person in the Grammy’s history, she has never won the Album of the Year category.
