Tina Knowles is moving on with life and love.
It’s been nearly two years since her divorce from actor Richard Lawson, whom Knowles married back in 2015, and Beyoncé and Solange’s mom tells PEOPLE in this week’s World’s Most Beautiful issue that she is back in the dating game.
Asked if she is currently seeing someone, Knowles, 71, confirmed that indeed she is.
“I am spending time with a friend,” she says demurely, adding that he’s a “very nice gentleman. We’ll see what happens.”
As for what led to her sudden split from Lawson, Knowles reflects on the marriage and how it ended, in her sweeping new memoir Matriarch.
Though she stops short of sharing what exactly precipitated her split with Lawson, she writes, “Love is patient, love is kind. Love is also not a competition or mired in jealousy. I made the decision to divorce with a heavy heart but totally without malice, and I have not lost a night of sleep over it.”
This is in stark contrast to how her marriage to Mathew Knowles, her first husband and the father of her daughters, ended. In the new book she’s opening up for the first time about his decades of infidelity, and how difficult it was for her to leave the marriage after 31 years.
She writes, “I was caught in this dance with him, each doing the same steps over and over: He would cheat or act up, and I would say I’d had enough. He would beg for forgiveness, crying and promising to get better… But this is what married people did, I told myself.”
The pair split in 2011 and she admits it took her time to fully walk away. But, she tells PEOPLE, that was just not the case with Lawson. As for what made ending her second marriage easier, she offers, “age, experience, confidence, a lot of things.”
These days, she’s not looking back, only forward. And, she’s feeling sexy. “Just getting all dressed up and done up, makeup, hair. You know, putting on something that fits well. It’s fun looking sexy. It makes me feel sexy.”
Most of all, Knowles says she’s “making the best of every day that I have left in this life.”
Matriarch is available now, wherever books are sold.
For more on Tina Knowles’ life and loves pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, available on newsstands everywhere Friday.
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