Kelly Rowland Says Beyoncé’s Mom Scolded Her For ‘Bad Parenting Moment’

Kelly Rowland recalls a time when Beyoncé’s mother berated her for “poor parenting.”

At a performance on The Jennifer Hudson Show On Monday, October 17, the 41-year-old Destiny’s Child graduate announced that her seven-year-old son, Titan, had seen her new film The Curse of Bridge Hollow. The singer is also mom to Noah, 20 months old, both of whom she shares with husband Tim Weatherspoon.

According to IMDb, the adventure comedy, rated TV-14, is about “a teenage girl who accidentally unleashes an ancient and mischievous spirit on Halloween, causing decorations to come alive and wreak havoc.”

“Have your children seen the film? What did you think?” Jennifer Hudson, 41, asked in a preview of the provided episode news week.

In response, Rowland laughed and said she “had a really bad parenting moment.”

“Titan will be eight soon. I thought since I’m sitting here with him, we’re fine,” the actress explained. “But there’s a scene in the movie where Mommy looks like she’s about to go to the other side and Titan basically says, ‘Mommy!'” she shared, noting that he burst into tears.

“It was a complete liberation. He cried for five minutes,” she continued. “I said, ‘Yo, I’m right here. I’m right here, I’m not going anywhere.’ He said: ‘No.’ It was a whole moment.”

Rowland added that she asked “Mama T,” aka Tina Knowles, for advice.

“She said, ‘Well, why the hell are you doing something like that?’ She didn’t understand why I was even showing him the film and she was like, ‘It’s Halloween, baby, you’re not doing that.’ So I missed the target.”

Rowland has said she practices so-called soft parenting with her two children.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, it’s an approach that aims to “raise confident, independent, and happy children through empathy, respect, understanding, and setting healthy boundaries.”

Traditional parenting, on the other hand, “focuses on punishment and reward,” the site says.

“Some of it makes sense to me and some of it doesn’t,” Rowland told host Angie Martinez while appearing on the Angie Martinez IRL podcast earlier this month.

She added that the goal is to try to “break the generational curse of talking about your children and making them feel seen and respected. And the first place they understand love, respect and self-confidence is at home.”

Martinez joked that the concept sounded “lovely and ridiculous.”

The “Motivation” singer admitted she was raised differently, but now that she’s a parent, “I’m unlearning things that happened to me growing up with my son.”

“It’s like trial and error,” Rowland said. “We don’t quite get it.”

The Curse of Bridge Hollow Premieres October 14 on Netflix.