Beyoncé Admits She ‘Did Not Want’ Daughter Blue Ivy, 12, Onstage During Tour

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Beyoncé is admitting that she hesitated to let her eldest child, Blue Ivy Carter, join her onstage during her Renaissance tour last year.

Speaking with GQ for its October cover story, the 32-time Grammy-winning singer said that despite those initial reservations, her 12-year-old daughter “earned” the opportunity to perform alongside her during the global tour.

“She’s a natural, but I did not want Blue onstage,” Beyoncé said in the story, published Tuesday.

The “Single Ladies” crooner, who also shares twins Rumi and Sir with husband Jay-Z, gushed over her eldest child.

“Blue is an artist. She has great taste in music and fashion. She is a fantastic editor, painter and actress,” her mother shared. “She has been creating characters since she was three.”

“Blue wanted it for herself,” Beyoncé explained. “She took it seriously and she earned it. And most importantly, she had fun! We all watched her grow more and more every night before our eyes.”

Beyoncé had previously admitted that she changed her mind about letting the tween hit the stage after making a deal with her.

“I made a deal with her and I said, ‘If you practice and you show the commitment, I’ll let you do one show,’” the star said in her 2023 documentary “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” E! News reports.

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“I did not think it was an appropriate place for an 11-year-old on a stadium stage,” Beyoncé admitted. “All the things that I had to go through — the obstacles I had to overcome — prepared me, and she hasn’t had that struggle.”

The duo previously appeared together at the singer’s Dubai concert in January 2023, where they performed their “Brown Skin Girl” collaboration for the first time live.

Blue appeared onstage during the Renaissance tour’s stop in Paris last May to perform “My Power” and “Black Parade,” but faced online criticism over her dance moves.

Unfortunately, she caught wind of the internet’s negative comments.

But Blue, the second-youngest person to win a Grammy Award, said she used the backlash as fuel to improve her moves.

“I feel like now my mindset has changed,” E! News reported her saying in the “Renaissance” film, which hit theaters in December 2023. “I actually have to wake up in the morning and go to rehearsals, and I actually have to work hard.”

“I can see that the more I do it, the better I become,” she added.

In October, Jay-Z praised his daughter for “reclaiming her power” after all the online hate.

“What makes me super proud — and I still get goosebumps seeing her walk onstage — is because Blue’s been … born into a life she didn’t ask for,” the rapper told “CBS Mornings” in October. “Since she was born, she’s been in scrutiny and public eye, and everyone having an opinion — even [on] a little girl, how she keeps her hair.”

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He continued, “So for her to be on that stage and reclaim her power, and the song is called ‘My Power’ … you can’t write a better script.”

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