Tina Knowles has confessed that she has been privately struggling with breast cancer for the past year—just one month after it was revealed that her Galveston, TX, beach house was being demolished.

Tina Knowles, mother of Beyonce and Solange and author of a just-released memoir, revealed this week that she had been treated for stage 1 breast cancer last July. She noted how lucky she felt to have had the cancer discovered early after initially forgetting to reschedule a mammogram that had been canceled due to COVID.