"I'm proud to see her as a mother," Mathew Knowle's told HLN. "I know this was something very important to her. To see her just hold [her daughter] Blue Ivy, that is something very special. I have a picture that nobody else would ever get to see of her holding Blue Ivy and you can see the joy in her face."

While Mr. Knowles was tight with other details about his relationship with Beyonc� and his granddaughter, he did offer a few words on the lip-sync controversy that dogged his daughter when she sang to a backing track at the Presidential inauguration.