JAY-Z's mom, Dr. Gloria Carter, and her new wife, Roxanne Wiltshire, walked their first red carpet as a married couple.
in her son JAY-Z's 2017 song,"Smile." She kept her sexuality a secret from the public until the then-48-year-old rapper's"Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian/Had to pretend so long that she's a thespian/Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate/Society shame and the pain was too much to take," the now-53-year-old GRAMMY winner rapped in the song.
"My son cried. He said, 'It must have been horrible to live that way so long.' My life wasn't horrible. I chose to protect my family from ignorance. I was happy, but I was not free," Carter said. "Then one day, I met someone that made my heart sing. Made me no longer want to sneak a peep at them, but actually look at them with loving eyes.
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