By now, everyone is aware of simply how shocked Beyoncé was when when she gained the Grammy Award for Greatest Nation Album — there’s even a meme about it!

However the pop celebrity wasn’t the one one who was shocked.

Throughout a brand new look on Jennifer Hudson’s speak present, Bey’s mother, Tina Knowles, admits that her daughter’s large Grammys evening caught her abruptly, too.

“I used to be actually shocked. Oh, I used to be so shocked,” Knowles says. “The truth is, I sat there for a second and did not even consider that it was true.”

Knowles was babysitting Rumi and Sir, the 7-year-old twins Beyoncé shares along with her husband Jay-Z, throughout the ceremony. She says all three of them watched the TV in shocked silence after the Greatest Nation Album winner’s identify was known as, and it wasn’t till the digicam panned over to Beyoncé — displaying her much-memeified shocked response — that she knew for certain it was actual.

“I could not consider it,” Knowles continues, “As a result of it has been so many instances that I assumed that that might occur and it did not.”

• To make clear, Beyoncé’s Greatest Nation Album win adopted her first-ever nomination in that class.
• When Knowles refers to “so many instances” prior to now she thought Beyoncé may win, she’s speaking about her Album of the Yr victory.
• Beyoncé gained Album of the Yr — additionally for her nation challenge Cowboy Carter — for the primary time in 2025, having been nominated for the award 4 instances prior to now.

Beyoncé is the most-awarded artist in Grammy historical past. Earlier than 2025, she held 32 trophies on the awards present, however had by no means gained Album of the Yr. She turned the primary Black lady to ever win Greatest Nation Album at this yr’s awards present.

Cowboy Carter is Beyoncé’s first full nation challenge, and she or he just lately introduced dates for a tour in 2025.