Father says Beyoncé was sexually harassed 20 years ago

Singer Beyoncé was sexually harassed by R&B group Jagged Edge when she was 16-years-old, said her father Mathew Knowles.

Knowles, who managed both his daughter at the time, said during an interview that two members of Jagged Edge behaved inappropriately with then 16-year-old Beyoncé and bandmate Kelly Rowland.

He claimed that the harassment took place when his daughter was travelling with Jagged Edge on the same bus.

“Now, remember the girls are minors: They’re 16-years-old, the guys are 21, 22-years-old,” he said.

“I got a call from Kelly and Beyoncé saying that they were constantly being harassed by two of the members of Jagged Edge. I couldn’t have that.”

Mathew divorced Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles, in December 2011.

The singer stopped using him as her manager following the divorce.

Beyoncé had famously lambasted him when she recalled her father’s adultery for her explosive album Lemonade.

"You remind me of my father, a magician … able to exist in two places at once,” she says in a spoken word segment on one track.