*JAY-Z’s mother Gloria Carter married her longtime partner Roxanne Wiltshire in New York City over the weekend.
According to TMZ, the star-studded celebration was attended by family and celebrity friends including Kelly Rowland, Tina Knowles-Lawson, Tyler Perry, and Beyoncé … who looked stunning! The superstar shared photos of her peach-colored Dolce & Gabbana ensemble on Instagram.
Gloria recalled during a conversation on the D’Usse Friday podcast in 2017, the moment she came out to her son.
“I was sitting there and I was telling him one day. I just finally started telling him who I was. Besides your mother, this is the person that I am, you know? This is the life that I lived,” she said, People reports. “So my son started actually, like, tearing because he was like, ‘That had to be a horrible life, Ma.’ I was like, ‘My life was never horrible. It was just different.’ So that made him want to do a song about it.”
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JAY-Z’s 2017 album “4:44” includes the track “Smile,” on which he discusses his mother’s coming out to him.
“Mama had four kids, but she’s a lesbian/Had to pretend so long that she’s a thespian/Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate/Society shame and the pain was too much to take,” he rapped. “Cried tears of joy when you fell in love/Don’t matter to me if it’s a him or her/I just wanna see you smile through all the hate/Marie Antoinette, baby, let ’em eat cake.”
When Jigga appeared on David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction series on Netflix, the hip-hop star said he cried when his mother revealed she had fallen in love with a woman.
“Imagine having to live your life as someone else and you think you’re protecting your kids,” he explained, People reports. “For her to sit in front of me and tell me ‘I think I love someone,’ I really cried…I cried because I was so happy for her that she was free.”
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