Tina Knowles and Richard Lawson’s Relationship Timeline: The Way They Were
usmagazine.comTina Knowles and Richard Lawson’s eight-year-long marriage came to an end in July 2023.Four years before she tied the knot with Lawson in April 2015, Tina finalized her divorce from ex-husband Mathew Knowles in December 2011, citing the reasoning behind their split as “discord or conflict of personalities,” which “prevents any reasonable expectation of reconciliation.”Tina and Mathew wed in 1980 and welcomed their daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, in 1981 and 1986, respectively.
Tina initially filed for divorce from her now-ex in November 2009 but dismissed it one year later before refiling in August 2011.Lawson, for his part, was previously married to actress Denise Gordy — with whom he shares daughter Bianca — from 1978 to 1989.
Lawson is also father to a son, Ricky, from a previous relationship.Keep scrolling to see Tina and Lawson’s relationship timeline: Tina and Lawson were friends for decades before becoming romantic with one another. “I’ve known Richard for 40 years, and when we reconnected, it was just, I felt like, a gift from God,” Tina shared during an April 2022 appearance on the Taron Hall Show. “I really mean that because I prayed.
After I went through a divorce, it was pretty devastating after 33 years, and I always planned on, if it was in God’s plan, to get married again because I like being married.
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