Beyonce addressed the surrogate rumours for the first time to People magazine.
She said:
"That was crazy. It wasn't hurtful, it was just crazy." "[I thought] 'Where did they come up with this? It was so crazy and ridiculous"
Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles felt the rumors were especially cruel explaining;
"I thought it was very unfair and very cruel that someone would think that someone would be that diabolical to keep up a charade like that for nine months. As a mother it was painful for me to hear the crazy rumors. And I even had people ask me, which was so ridiculous."