In case you missed it, Jay-Z‘s mother, Gloria Carter, is a newly married woman.
On Sunday night, she exchanged vows with her partner, Roxanne Wilshire, in a celebration in New York that brought out some big names. They included, of course, her son and daughter-in-law, Beyoncé, along with Blue Ivy, Tina Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and other stars like Tyler Perry, Robin Roberts and Corey Gamble, according to TMZ. The fête reportedly went until 1 a.m.
Jay-Z famously told his mother’s story in his track “Smile” from his 2017 album 4:44. At the end of the song, which samples Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s in Need of Love Today,” she shared a poem about her experience, noting the desire to stay in the closet for so long because of a fear of harm to her loved ones.
In her own rare interview, Gloria shared how she came out to her famous son.
“Me and my son, we share a lot of information, so I was sitting there and I was telling him one day, I just finally started telling him who I was,” she shared in 2017 on the short-lived D’USSE Friday podcast. “Besides your mother, this is the person that I am, you know? This is the life that I live.”
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