Kelly Rowland Opens Up About New Music, Spirituality and Her Teenage Years With The Knowles Family

Growing up with family friends can create a relationship so deep you eventually omit “friends” from the title. That’s the story Rowland shared about her experience being brought up with Beyoncé’s family.

After discussing her process for staying spiritually grounded, Rowland opened up about her “clique” that keeps her sane through all of life’s ups and downs. 

One up was her wedding in which her besties were all in attendance. “I’ve got lots, I do, I do … and they all are incredibly important. There are some I don’t even talk to every day, but they are my best friends in the whole world, and I trust them with my whole life, I trust them with every story with every secret, absolutely. A whole bunch. It’s Bey, Michelle, Solange, Angie [Beyince], La La [Anthony], my best friend, and Barbara [Rubio] and Yoshika [Berroud]. My husband trumps all of them now, ’cos we are going through life together. But that’s my clique, for sure.”

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Rowland goes on to describe how her “interesting” relationship with her mother was mended by the Knowles family in her early teenage years. “It was great at times and it was awful at times. She was doing her best and some times in my eyes as kid I didn’t see … there were times when I just didn’t click, didn’t click at all.”

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Rowland continues, “It was okay not being with her [her mother], actually, because I didn’t grow up with my dad. I felt like: ‘Oh my God, Solange has a daddy’ and I needed to see what a male figure in a household is like – Tina [Knowles] was just awesome, always has been, always will be – and having sisters. Tina was there when Titan was born; she walked me down the aisle, because my mother was actually too sick to walk me. Tina is his grandmother, you know what I mean.”

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She ends her conversation saying that if she could rewrite any party of her past she would say to her mom, “I would have told my mum that I really appreciated her, that she was bold, she was courageous, she was beautiful and that I wish I really told her to her face. I didn’t think she was ever really told that.”