Rapper Jay-Z speaks on mending his marriage to Beyoncé

A contrite and emotional Jay-Z has opened up for the first time on how his marriage to Beyonce went to the brink after he cheated on her.

 

The A-list couple, who were dogged with split rumours after her sister Solange Knowles was caught on camera beating up Jay-Z in a lift, were close to breaking up because of his actions. And he revealed how it almost "blew up" due to his lies.

In an interview with CNN's Van Jones, he called his wife of nearly 10 years "my soulmate, the person I love".

When asked why his marriage was so special to be worth fighting for, Jay replied: 

You can be so in love with someone, and if you have and experienced love and if you don't understand it or have the tools to move forward, then you're going to have complications. You can either address it or pretend until it blows up at some point.

He went on: "For us, we chose to fight for our love. For our family. To give our kids a different outcome. To break that cycle for black men and women.

The key to working through marital difficulties, regardless of one's fame, is having "the tools to move forward," Jay-Z emphasized. We were never a celebrity couple -- we were a couple that happened to be celebrities. We are real people," he told Jones.