Kelly Rowland Reveals What JAY-Z Told Her Before Reconnecting With Her Dad After 30 Years

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Kelly Rowland shared her personal story of forgiveness and how it allowed her to reconnect with her father after 30 years. On Tuesday, the Destiny’s Child alum was a guest host on, where she appeared in a segment alongside Hoda Kotb and discussed the moment that she chose to reach out to her father after not speaking for 30 years.

The “Motivation” singer shared that it was JAY-Z who gave her a key piece of advice before she met her father in 2018. “He said, ‘Love is all about risk.

You gotta decide if you’re gonna jump,’" she recalled. "'You gonna jump?' That's what he asked me: 'Are you gonna jump?'”  During the interview, Rowland explained that she was raised by her single mother after her father decided that he wasn’t ready for parenthood. “I had a wonderful mom who supported me and loved me, but the truth is, there was always a piece of me that was kinda missing,” she shared. “For 30 years, my dad was absent in my life.” Finally, a few years after the birth of her first son, Titan, and the death of her mother in 2014, she decided it was time to meet her father. “At that time, I think I still had these feeling of ‘Oh my god, I have no parents’ and it was like, 'No, you do, you have one left,'" she shared.Rowland then arranged to meet him in a hotel in Atlanta and gave him the space to talk freely for two hours while she just listened.

Part of her path to forgiveness was learning and understanding that parents deserve grace. “I learned that we are not perfect, and it broke my heart to know that there is going to be something about me that my kids is going to be disappointed about,” Rowland said through tears. “Something, you don’t do it intentionally of course.