Beyoncé Had To Choose Between Jay-Z And Another Man

It is no secret that Beyoncé and Jay-Z are an influence couple within the business.

Nonetheless, in an alternate universe, the “Dangerously In Love” singer was near marrying one other man who was shining vibrant in Hollywood.

In her new memoir, “Matriarch,” Tina mirrored on the time Beyoncé sought her recommendation when she realized the time had come for her to decide on between Jay-Z and another person.

In keeping with Us Weekly, Tina wrote concerning the starting of Beyoncé’s relationship with Jay-Z in her ebook, which hit cabinets on April 22.

In keeping with her, the pair had “developed a friendship” within the early 2000s. They spoke primarily over the cellphone and gave one another recommendation about their music.

Tina went on to say that when Jay-Z visited their hometown of Houston, Texas, for a live performance, she invited him to their home to have dinner.

Following that, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s friendship deepened. “She would inform me, ‘He’s simply so good,'” Tina wrote.

Nonetheless, Beyoncé was additionally speaking to a different “man within the business,” who, based on Tina, was desirous about taking issues to the subsequent degree together with her.

Tina defined that whereas the “Cowboy Carter” singer was filming the 2002 blockbuster movie “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” she requested for recommendation since each males had been coming to go to her in California.

The OG momager requested her daughter who she appreciated most, however she knew it was Jay-Z, whose actual title is Shawn Carter.

“It was Jay,” she wrote. “Isn’t it humbling how love can start with such a easy feeling? You want speaking to somebody over the cellphone. You’re 21 years outdated and you’ll’t know sometime you’ll take that like to the celebs, but it surely begins with such a small intuition.”

Later, within the chapter, Tina revealed she’s gotten extraordinarily shut with Jay-Z’s mom and grandmother, and that started in the course of the couple’s early days.

“That was the beginning of the Carter and Knowles households becoming a member of as one household, and we’re all very near at the present time,” she wrote. “Our gatherings would turn out to be events, wealthy with laughter and storytelling, consuming and dancing. Within the Bible, it says to eat, drink, and be merry, and that’s what our evenings are like with the Carters.”

Tina additionally opened up about Beyoncé’s top-secret wedding ceremony, which occurred on April 4, 2008.

To at the present time, a lot of the occasion’s intimate particulars are nonetheless unknown, and based on Bey’s mother, that was intentional.

“That they had the marriage at their home on April 4 as a result of it was the one place that we knew it wouldn’t get out,” she shared. “We had a girl make white curtains to cowl the partitions and home windows, proper as much as the 25-foot ceilings.

She continued, “The small print are my daughter and son-in-law’s, however what I’ll say is that I joined Jay’s grandmother and mom in cooking all of the meals. We did soul meals, after all, the perfect meals for an evening of dancing and household love.”

The Blast beforehand reported on the marriage ceremony, which was held at Jay’s 13,500-square-foot penthouse in Manhattan. Along with the white curtains, it additionally had 70,000 dendrobium orchids from Thailand.

In April 2025, Tina posted a heartfelt tribute to the couple on their seventeenth anniversary.