Beyonce Tell-All Claims Jay Z Opened Up After Reconciling With His Dad

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Jay-Z Was Able To Open Up To Beyoncé Fully After Forgiving His Father

We gotta get our hands on this Beyoncé tell-all! More details from the book have been released, this time about how Hov and Bey had a real relationship breakthrough after he forgave his dad for abandoning his family when he was only 11.

Via Daily Mail reports:

According to J. Randy Taraborrelli’s ‘Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story’, the couple had been seeing each other for around two years when Jay Z decided to resolve things with his father.

The book claims that his anger at his father Adnes Reeves had ‘closed him off emotionally’ but he didn’t discuss it with Beyoncé because he ‘didn’t want to scare her away with too much information’.

Taraborrelli writes: ‘He was already afraid his controversial background would be a burden for her to carry, not to mention one for her parents as well. So when it came to Adnes, he held back.’

That actually makes a lot of sense. Hov is so private but you know his father’s departure was significant because he mentions it in songs and in his ‘Decoded’ book.

It wasn’t until Jay Z was 33 and was already a hip hop mogul that he decided to meet with his father and let his true feelings come out.

Adnes told him that he had turned to drugs after becoming obsessed with finding the man who killed his brother and that his life had been a downward spiral ever since.

Taraborrelli writes that this ‘completely set Jay straight’ and that he forgave him. Their meeting came months before Adnes died, in June 2003 from liver failure.

The book says: ‘Jay says that forgiving Adnes absolutely opened him up to the possibility of love in his life.

‘It was after his father’s death that he began to fully pursue with an open heart a relationship with Beyonce.

‘She came in at the tail end of his reconciliation with his father… she understood a lot of what was going on with him as it unfolded, forging a bond with him that was undeniable, especially as she had her own father issues’.

Boy did she! We all know about those Mathew Knowles issues.

Speaking of those issues… The book also addresses the way Beyonce defended her dad when former Destiny’s Child members Letoya Luckett and Latavia Roberson tried to fire him. Hit the flip for that.

Y’all remember when Letoya and Latavia got sent “to the left”? Well J. Randy Taraborrelli seems to have gotten hold of the farewell letter Bey wrote them!

Those issues would lead to Beyoncé writing a devastating letter three years earlier to two of the original members of Destiny’s Child.

It was dated January 5, 2000 and was sent to LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett, who had fallen out with Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé’s father and the band’s manager, over how he was giving his daughter more of the spotlight and lead vocal parts.

The letter also makes clear her devotion to her father that would later crumble when she went solo.

The letter reads: ‘I have shared some of the best moments of my life with the two of you by my side. I have also shared some of the worst’.

‘(Think of) the white house on Parkwood (her family home) that you both spent many summers living in that we had to sell, the car we all piled into that we had to sell, the job that Mathew quit to dedicate countless hours to Destiny’s Child.

‘You were there when people called him crazy for dedicating his time and money to us. It’s very sad when people become successful that they forget how they got where they are and who helped them… we all know that our contributions are not anywhere close to being equal, yet we all get paid equally.

‘I have never asked for the best clothes or better treatment. In fact, I have settled for the worst on numerous occasions just to avoid conflict and keep the peace.

‘I also never complained when you didn’t sing one note on numerous songs on the (first) album.

‘I’ve never complained when I was working my butt off in the studio as I did on the last album (The Writing’s On The Wall) when the two of you were both either sleeping or on your phones approximately eighty percent of the time.

‘I never complained when the two of you were lip singing to my vocals on some of the videos and on stage’.

What bothered Beyoncé most was that LaTavia and LeToya had sent her father a letter demanding that they stay in the band but have a different manager.

Given the control that Mathew Knowles exerted over the group, this was effectively them declaring war.

In her letter Beyoncé attacked LeTavia and LeToya for making a ‘business decision for the group without discussing it with myself or Kelly (Rowland)’.

She wrote: ‘Approximately every three weeks (or less!) there is drama caused by one or both of you. I don’t deserve this! So don’t think that this is because of Mathew.

‘It’s just that I can’t continue to live with the same drama that I have dealt with for so many years’.

Well damn. When you put it that way sounds like Bey wasn’t quite as Ruthless as folks have made her (and Mathew) out to be.

That is — til you hear how she did Farrah Franklin.

That story on the flip.

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SMH. Farrah clearly wasn’t ready for Bey’s jelly.

Taraborrelli writes that Beyoncé later clashed with Farrah Franklin, who was brought in as a replacement when LeTavia and LeToya quit.

But she lasted three months before she got fed up with Beyoncé hogging the limelight too.

During a phone conversation Beyoncé supposedly told Farrah: ‘This is a business… think like a businesswoman. Think smart’.

Taraborrelli writes that Farrah thought about it for a bit and called back and didn’t back down.
Beyoncé supposedly told her: ‘Fine. I wish you the best. May God bless you. Goodbye’ – and hung up.

Sorry BUT that has to be the best kiss off we ever heard. Better than Shaunie O’Neal with her “Thank you for your services.”

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