In a new interview with Gayle King for CBS Mornings, Tina revealed that she was identified with Stage 1 breast most cancers final 12 months.
Tina revealed to Gayle that docs found two tumors in her left breast throughout a mammogram appointment that had been delayed through the COVID-19 pandemic and was finally rescheduled for 2024. “I’ve at all times tried to care for myself,” she stated. “I simply…was in disbelief.”
Tina additionally stated that her docs later knowledgeable her that, if she hadn’t missed her screening, the detection may need occurred at Stage 0, which is when the most cancers hasn’t but unfold past the tissue.
“I used to be nervous, in order that they began simply joking with me,” Tina recalled, revealing that Solange performed her the viral “demure” video to assist put her comfortable. Solange additionally sang the tune “Stroll With Me” together with Tina’s niece Angie Beyincé earlier than the surgical procedure. “I stated, ‘I am simply so completely happy that y’all are right here,'” Tina stated.
Tina additionally stated that, following surgical procedure, she’d developed a critical an infection final fall that just about prevented her from attending Glamour’s 2024 Girls of the Yr occasion — and that Beyoncé, amongst different members of the family, urged her to relaxation. “Mama, you are not your self,” Tina recalled Beyoncé telling her. “She was like, ‘Your well being is extra vital. Do not go.'”
However Tina managed to attend the occasion and provides a speech no matter how she was feeling. “Loads of my life, I simply refused to be acknowledged,” she stated whereas explaining the explanation why she in the end pushed by way of. “I’d by no means take an award. I’d by no means need the eye to me…and this was my saying, ‘I deserve this.'”