At the LA Times Studios’ fifth annual Inspirational Women Forum & Leadership Awards, Tina Knowles, the 71-year-old author of “Matriarch” opened up — again — about the moment she realized she could no longer stay in a relationship that had shaped and at times swallowed three decades of her life.

She told the crowd that leaving Mathew Knowles felt almost impossible because their lives were deeply merged.

“I was married for 33 years. I’d been with someone for 33 years and you can imagine how intertwined our lives were,” she said, according to Hello! Magazine.

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She explained that the idea of separating her identity from his terrified her, confessing, “I thought, ‘How do I untangle this ball of yarn? Becaus

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