United Kingdom, April 26 -- Tina Knowles "can't even explain how supportive" her children were following her cancer diagnosis.

The The 71-year-old matriarch - who is the mother of global superstar Beyonce and singer Solange Knowles - had missed a routine mammogram and was stunned when doctors discovered stage 1 breast cancer in her left breast last July, but knew that she "could get through anything" with her daughters alongside her.

She told The Guardian: "It was really hard, really challenging.

"Something that I thought was going to be easy turned into something pretty traumatic, but I am doing so good now, and I am just so grateful and blessed that I am healthy. It could have been way worse.

"My kids were....I can't even explain ho...