Jay-Z Cried Tears Of Joy When His Mom Came Out

Jay-Z and his mother, Gloria Carter, grew a lot closer after she came out of the closet.

“Imagine having lived your life for someone else. And you think you’re protecting your kids,” Jay-Z shared in an interview for the Netflix show “My Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman” airing on April 6. “And for my mother to have to live as someone that she wasn’t and hide and, like, protect her kids — and didn’t want to embarrass her kids, and you know, for all this time.”

The “Blueprint” rapper, 48, confessed to crying when his mother gathered the courage to share that she was in love with another woman. Jay-Z said he knew about Gloria’s sexuality, but this was the first time they had ever spoken about it.

“For her to sit in front of me and tell me, ‘I think I love someone,’ I mean, I really cried,” he said. “That’s a real story. I cried because I was so happy for her that she was free.”

The father of three and business mogul said that even in that moment, Gloria was hesitatant in revealing herself in totality.

“She didn’t say, ‘I’m in love,’” Jay-Z stated. “She said, ‘I feel like I love someone.’ And I just cried. I don’t even believe in crying because you’re happy. I don’t even know what that is. What is that?”

After talking, Jay-Z asked Gloria to perform on his album. She delivered a spoken-word poem on the track “Smile.”

“Living in the shadow feels like the safe place to be / No harm for them, no harm for me,” she says in her poem. “But life is short, and it’s time to be free / Love who you love, because life isn’t guaranteed.”

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