Black AIDS Institute for Black Voices Matter, a new video discussion series, to talk about her personal experience with HIV and AIDS.“When I was growing up, Johnny was three years older than me, and he was my very best friend in the whole world.
We made clothes together, we did everything together… he was a great designer, he won all kinds of awards. He ended up working as a nanny for Beyoncé and Solange, designed dresses for them and did their hair, and ended up being “that other parent to my kids,” Knowles-Lawson said.When Johnny died from AIDS-related complications when her kids were teens, the loss changed Knowles-Lawson’s life. “It touched me like nothing else in my life, like no other loss has ever touched me,” she said in the.