Beyoncé gets “really mean” backstage, says her mother Tina Knowles

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Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, has jokingly recalled how the singer can get “really mean” when she’s backstage at her shows.During a recent interview with Sherri Shepherd, Tina was asked what it was like being backstage at Beyoncé’s shows – to which she playfully revealed that the pop star can get “mean”.“We laughed about this recently because I was saying, ‘Girl, you get really mean back there,’” Tina told the host as the audience laughed along. “And I am really happy that I don’t have to be back there anymore because I used to do the quick change.”She continued, adding that it was something they both used to joke about in the past and the multi-Grammy-winner is always apologetic when she lets the fast pace of the show affect her “in the heat of the moment”.“We laugh because she used to do [2007 song] ‘Flaws and All’, and she would say, ‘I’m a bitch in the morning.’ And I be like, ‘And the evening too,’” Tina added. “After we get off, she say[s], ‘Mama, I’m so sorry.’ And I’m like, ‘I know.’ And sometimes she be crying.

And I was like, ‘She crying ‘cause she know she just said some crazy stuff to us.’”She explained: “But that’s the heat of the moment.

Because you trying to get your shoes on and everybody’s waiting. If someone’s messing up or they lose the shoes, you messed up the whole show.”Later in the interview, the singer’s mother shared how proud she is of her granddaughter Blue Ivy for taking to the stage with Beyoncé and performing a dance routine for every night of the ‘Renaissance’ tour.“Me and her dad [Jay-Z], we were together every night.

He would come to the front, where I was, and watch that,” she explained.“I was in tears and he was grinning so hard, I thought his face would hurt.