Beyoncé’s mom Tina Knowles admitted to the occasional errant tap, but maintained her account was hacked when it looked as if she liked a post detailing a rape accusation against son-in-law Jay-Z.
Tina Knowles takes full responsibility for what she posts on her social media accounts. But Beyoncé‘s mother will let you know if someone has commandeered her sassy ship to make waves.
Eyebrows raised skyward earlier this month when scrollers noticed that Tina’s Instagram account had “liked” ABC 7 Chicago’s Dec. 8 post detailing the news that Jay-Z had been accused—in a lawsuit first filed against Sean “Diddy” Combs back in October—of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.
“Not ms Tina Knowles liking the post!” wrote a commenter.
But Tina—who doesn’t shy away from mixing it up on social media and has admittedly erred in liking posts before reading them thoroughly—maintained that she was not behind that first tap on the story about her son-in-law.
“I was Hacked !” she wrote in a Dec. 9 post. “As you all know I do not play about my family. So if you see something uncharacteristic of me. “Just know that it is not me !”
“I’m a protector of my kids, and I just feel like that’s my job,” the 70-year-old matriarch, who also shares daughter Solange Knowles with ex-husband Mathew Knowles, said on the Dec. 31 episode of The Run-Through With Vogue podcast. “And, you know, my kids are always like, ‘Mama, just ignore that.’ But it gets to the point where I’m just like, ‘I’m sorry. This is enough. It’s enough.’ You know? Because imagine being a mother and somebody’s lying on your kid. It’s hard to watch.”
But she admitted that there’s so much about her family online that occasionally her quick thumb will get the better of her.
“It’s so funny because you know how many times I’ve liked something that was negative about my own children?” Tina noted. “Because if I’m busy and I’m going through the thing, I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s Beyoncé with so and so.’ I like that. And then the fans come back and say, ‘Miss Tina, please erase that because you’re liking some negative post.’”
And while she had already said her piece about what happened with the Jay-Z post, she said that Beyoncé’s husband of 16 years had given her some valuable advice about wading into the fray on social media.
“My son-in-law, Jay will say, ‘Listen, if you’re gonna read somebody, at least spell your words right,’” Tina shared. “‘Don’t misspell your words, Ma. You can’t do that. Take your time and go over and spellcheck your stuff!’”
However, she cracked, “I don’t have time for that.”
Jay-Z’s family showed a united front the day after the complaint naming him was filed, the Roc Nation founder joining his wife, mother-in-law and daughter Blue Ivy Carter on the red carpet at the Dec. 9 premiere of Mufasa.
“My gorgeous baby girl,” Beyoncé, who reprised the voice of Nala in the Lion King origin story, wrote on Instagram afterward alongside photos of 12-year-old Blue, who voiced the new part of Nala and Simba’s daughter Kiara. “This is your night. You worked hard and you did such a beautiful job…Your family could not be prouder. Keep shining.”
But a glamorous night out didn’t mean the lawsuit wasn’t weighing on Jay-Z.
He has vehemently denied the allegations against him in the amended complaint, which was first filed by an anonymous female plaintiff in October and initially didn’t refer to the “99 Problems” rapper by name.
“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one,” Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, said in a Dec. 8 statement to E! News, addressing his accuser’s legal team. “Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree? These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case.”
Combs, meanwhile, has been accused of sexual misconduct in multiple lawsuits filed over the past 13 months. In separate criminal proceedings, he remains jailed in Brooklyn since pleading not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges filed against him in September.
After the suit referencing an unnamed male celebrity later alleged to be Jay-Z was first filed, Combs’ attorney referred E! News to a previous statement sharing that the defendant and his legal team had “full confidence in the facts, their legal defenses, and the integrity of the judicial process.”
The statement added, “In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone—adult or minor, man or woman.”
“My only heartbreak is for my family,” Jay-Z said in a Dec. 9 statement to E! News. “My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people.”
Jay-Z’s attorney Alex Spiro has since stressed that his client has nothing to do with any of the pending allegations against Combs.
“He’s upset,” Spiro said during a Dec. 16 press briefing, per CNN. “He’s upset that somebody would be allowed to do this, to make a mockery of the system like this. He’s upset that this distracts and dissuades real victims from coming forward.”
Most of all, Spiro added, Jay-Z is “upset that his kids and his family have to deal with this. He’s upset and he should be upset.”
Source: www.eonline.com