Tina Knowles had an unlucky wardrobe malfunction at an occasion for her new e-book Matriarch: A Memoir earlier than Keke Palmer got here to her rescue.
Palmer, 31, was the visitor moderator at a dialogue with Knowles, 71, about her memoir in Los Angeles on Friday, Could 2, when the snafu occurred. TikTok footage reveals Palmer aiding Knowles on stage because the creator tries to carry up her strapless robe.
Within the footage, an attendant rushes on stage to help too, with Knowles finally having the ability to regulate her outfit. All all through the awkward ordeal, Palmer saved followers laughing with a sequence of one-liners.
As she mimicked a few of the shocked faces of viewers members, Palmer quipped, “They was appearing prefer it was a complete homicide present.”

“I believed it was severe,” she teased. “I noticed the teleprompter [start] typing, ‘We want one thing.’ What the hell do you imply? They went in for no cause.”
As she pivoted again to the e-book dialogue, Palmer bought in a single ultimate joke, “They was gonna give me a coronary heart assault! Whew! So again to the e-book.”
Tina is in Los Angeles to advertise her memoir on the identical weekend as her daughter, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, headlines a five-night stint at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California to open her Cowboy Carter Tour. The celebs have been out for the Cowboy Carter Tour on Thursday, Could 1, together with Mindy Kaling, Ariana Madix, Chrishell Stause and Emma Hernan.
Launched on April 22, Matriarch gives an intimate have a look at how Tina and ex-husband Mathew Knowles navigated the careers of their daughters, Beyoncé and Solange Knowles. (Tina and Mathew divorced in 2011. She was later married to actor Richard Lawson from 2015 to 2024.)
One of many largest revelations in Matriarch was Tina disclosing a personal battle with breast most cancers in 2024.
“My physician advised me I had breast most cancers. A small tumor in my left breast that was cancerous; the bigger tumor in my proper breast was benign, however it will additionally must go,” Knowles wrote. “She mentioned I used to be Stage 1A, assuring me my prognosis was good. The subsequent step was to speak to an oncologist and a breast surgeon.”
She went on, “I sat there in a daze, rubbing my neck. I instantly considered my father, all these instances taking him to chemo and the way a lot most cancers took from him. I had been via all of these items in life attending to be 70 years outdated, and now I’m gonna get most cancers?”
Tina wrote that she quickly determined to sort out her prognosis with “precision” by consulting with Beyoncé and Solange to discover a most cancers specialist earlier than present process surgical procedure.
“My women grew to become my crew,” she recalled.
Though she was finally declared “cancer-free” following remedy, Tina confirmed that she handled a number of problems, together with growing a hematoma and a lingering an infection.
Talking completely to Us Weekly about Matriarch’s launch in March, Tina acknowledged that she was “nonetheless crying” about reflecting on her previous for the e-book.
“A giant, massive, massive hope is that folks will perceive how essential it’s to look into your previous, find out about your ancestors, and go that historical past on to your kids and your grandchildren,” she advised Us. “That’s what I’m hoping that may occur from this e-book.”
Matriarch is out now.