Tina Knowles recently revealed that she shared a special moment with her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange Knowles.
Before going into surgery to treat Stage 1 Breast Cancer, Beyoncé and Solange sang their mother a song.
“Right before I was wheeled in to get the surgery, my girls sang a gospel song. ‘Walk With Me,’ which I absolutely love,” Knowles told PEOPLE at the 27th Annual Angel Ball held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
Knowles also said that her daughters had her “laughing” after the demure trend.
“There was this woman who was saying, ‘You have to be demure.’ And they just kept saying this and showing me that video,” Knowles adds. “I went in there laughing and feeling so blessed — like everything was going to be okay. And it was. It so warms my heart.”
In her memoir Matriarch, Knowles decided to share her cancer journey.
“I struggled with whether I would share that journey [in the book] because I’m very private. But I decided to share it because I think it’s a lot of lessons in it for other women,” she said. “And I think as women, sometimes we get so busy. and we get so wrapped up and running around, but you must go get your test. Because if I had not gotten my test early, I mean, I shudder to think what could have happened to me.”
Knowles also shared how she forgot to schedule her own mammogram.
“I forgot that I didn’t go to get my test two years before I thought I had,” she said. “Because Covid came and they called me and canceled me and they said. We’ll call you when we start testing again. And I just thought I had done it. So you cannot play around with that.”
Knowles said that she has now adopted a healthier lifestyle following her diagnosis.
“I’m healthier, eating better, I lost weight,” she says.
Knowles conz”I want to give people hope,” Knowles adds. “What scares me now is not making the best of every day that I have left in this life.”