Tina Knowles Reveals She Needed Skin Graft After Freak Cooking Accident: The Oil Melted ‘Through My Skin to the Muscle’

Tina Knowles revealed a scary incident that happened in her kitchen over 20 years ago,

In her memoir Matriarch, Tina, now 71, recalled needing a skin graft following a freak cooking accident in July 2004.

To keep up her mother’s tradition of cooking large dinners every Sunday, Tina wrote about one time where she was frying fish in a skillet while her husband at the time Mathew Knowles and stylist Ty Hunter were over in New York.

While cooking, she was on the phone with her pregnant daughter Solange, who was asking for instructions to cook chicken with a “cooking bag.” However, Tina left out a key step in putting the bag into a pan before placing it in the oven.

Solange, 38, called back to tell her that she wound up dropping the meal because of it. Tina laughed about the mishap and, upon hanging up the phone, hit the sizzling skillet’s handle, sending the contents flying.

Though she underwent surgery later than she was scheduled, apologizing to her doctor profusely, blaming flight delays, Tina’s doctor “killed that surgery,” moving skin from her hip to her thigh and grafting the wound.

Throughout her book, Tina also writes about hearing Beyoncé’s shout-out to Uncle Johnny in her song “HEATED,” her divorce from Richard Lawson and more.

Matriarch is available for purchase wherever books are sold.