Tina Knowles on Sisterly Bond & Therapy

0:00It's May 2nd. This is entertainment and celebrity news today, AI powered stories from the spotlight. Tina Knowles, now 72, dropped some real wisdom at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 18th. She shared how she took her young daughters, Beyoncé, around 10 or 11, and Salange about 5 or 6, to therapy, to fix their growing rift as, sisters. Beyoncé was blowing up locally and getting irritated with her little sis tagging along, while Salange just felt left out and sad. Tina got the idea from a therapist client at her hair salon, who hooked her up with a kid's specialist. She wanted Beyoncé to see past the age gap and stay tight with her family, no matter the spotlight. Her family pushed back hard, especially in black households back then, saying therapy would mess the girls up. Even her husband at the time questioned why such young kids needed it. But Tina stood firm, comparing mental health help to seeing a hard doctor for physical issues. The sessions clicked, Beyoncé realized her role as big sis, and they built that unbreakable

1:03bond they still have today. Tina says it taught them it's okay to talk things out, instead of bottling up pain. Years later, after her divorce, Tina struggled to find therapy that fit her depression, not just addiction recovery. Her memoir, May Chiark, lays it all out, smashing that stigma for good and showing therapies power across generations.