Beyonc Knowles insists she will never be a diva because her mother beat her when she behaved badly as a rising star. The Destiny’s Child star admits her mum Tina has only ever hit her once - and that was the last time she acted like a brat. She recalls, “I was 15 and we had a single, No No No, and it went to number one and I thought I was grown up. I was singing in a record store, ignoring her when she was talking to me. I was being defiant and she slapped me in my face, which she’s never done in her life. She said, ‘You better listen to me when I talk to you. Don’t think that you can do that now that you have a number one single.’ I was so embarrassed and shocked because I’d never got a spanking before but that was the best thing she ever did because from that moment I was starting to get that little diva thing. From that moment on I never went there and it put me in my place before it started.”

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