Tina Knowles Speaks on the Rumi Carter Incident

Three weeks ago Tina Knowles raised eyebrows after seemingly scolding her granddaughter, Rumi Carter, on stage for interrupting Beyoncé while she was trying to congratulate Tina on her New York Times Best Selling memoir "Matriarch [click here if you missed that]."

Tina addresses the viral moment....

Tina explains to Gayle King,

"People have written all kinds of narratives about it, but actually it was real. I mean it's real life, you know? Grandmas don't play. No, it really wasn't that. It was just that she was reaching for the mic because she wanted to say something, and I realized that, but she was pulling, and I was like, 'Oh god. That's all that needs to happen is the mic hits her in the face, and they say Beyoncé hit her in the face with the mic.'"

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Tina Knowles and Rumi joined Beyoncé for PROTECTOR

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