Beyonce’s mother Tina Knowles has slammed netizens trying to troll her daughter for new blonde look for the premiere of her Renaissance film.
Beyoncé, 42, wore a jaw-dropping silver Versace dress to the star-studded premiere alongside a platinum blonde wig and her look was the subject of internet chatter aplenty.
Some criticized Beyoncé on social media for changing her appearance and said she “looks so white”.
Responding to some of the comments floating around, Tina, 69, posted a lengthy statement on Instagram in which she called out ‘racist’ comments about her daughter.
She said people accusing Beyoncé of lightening her skin were “stupid”, “ignorant” and “self-hating”.
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“She does a film, called the Renaissance, where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet, and suggested silver attire and you bozos decide that she’s trying to be a white woman and is bleaching her skin?” she wrote.
Mum-of-two Tina went on to say that she was ‘sick and tired’ of people ‘attacking’ Beyoncé, who she said ‘minds her own business … helps people whenever she can [and] lifts up & promotes black women and underdogs at all times’.
Beyoncé released the track in 2019 as part of the film soundtrack for The Lion King: The Gift.
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé – which charts the world tour of her Grammy-winning album – premiered in Los Angeles on Saturday and is out in cinemas worldwide on Friday.
The album, her first solo project after a six-year break, was praised for its fusion of black and queer influences and went straight to number one when it was released.
