Beyonce's mom urged her to scale back tour stunts after scary prop malfunction
Beyoncé's mom urged her to scale back her live shows following a terrifying prop malfunction last year which saw the singer almost fall out of a fying car.
Beyoncé's mom urged her to scale back her live shows following a terrifying prop malfunction last year.
The 45-year-old singer had to stop a concert at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, in June 2025 when she almost fell out of a flying car after the red convertible began to lean at a sharp angle in the air, leaving her mother Tina Knowles fearing for her life.
Recalling the moment, Tina told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: "It was terrible. I had to fight my way through the crowd.
“I knew what was going on but she’s such a professional, she was singing through it. She is flying and I am like, ‘Oh my God’.
“She was holding herself in, to stop herself falling out. It was so dangerous. I said, ‘Can you stop flying and flipping and doing all this business?’
“I am holding on to her so relieved and she is like, ‘Mom, let go of me. I have a show to do’.”
The scary incident went viral on TikTok at the time.
Beyoncé - who appeared to be wearing a harness and was holding onto one of the cables attached to the car - was singing 16 Carriages while sitting on top of a red convertible when it began to lean at a sharp angle in the air.
She said into her microphone: “Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop."
The music was cut and the Texas Hold 'Em singer looked down at the ground and up again before smiling to the cheering crowd.
She told them after a few seconds: "Thank y’all for your patience.”
The car was then lowered and stopped tilting as it came closer to the ground, allowing Beyoncé to sit back in her original position as the lights went off.
Beyoncé "briefly" left the stage before returning to finish her performance.
She then came back to finish the song and told the crowd: “If ever I fall. I know y’all would catch me.”
And that wasn't the only malfunction Beyoncé experienced during her Cowboy Carter tour.
At the SoFi Stadium in California a few weeks before, the former Destiny's Child star was seen looking for her mark before the Cozy segment of the show, in which she is surrounded by gold frames.
But footage shared online showed her spot wasn't visible as she waited for robotic arms to bring the frames around her body and, appearing visibly confused, she was forced to complete her performance while avoiding being hit by the robotic props.
During another concert, Beyoncé's 14-year-old daughter Blue Ivy - who was a dancer on the tour - intervened to unhook an earring that almost got caught in the Crazy in Love hitmaker's hair mid-performance.
