Kelly Rowland has reconciled along with her father, Christopher Lovett, after being estranged for 30 years.

During the most recent episode of the podcast Mama, I Made It, Rowland stated she questioned what her youngsters would ask her about their grandfather.

“What was I going to tell him?” Rowland stated. “I could give him everything about his grandmother. But what am I going to tell him about my father?”

Rowland stated that she “knew it was time” to fulfill Lovett after making the reference to him in 2020.

“And I put it off for so long. I was like, ‘I just don’t want to open this box. I don’t know what’s going to be behind here. This is enough trauma. Let me just figure it all out now,” she stated. “But when I was able to meet him and talk to him and look him in his eye, I realized why I sang.”

Rowland stated she discovered her paternal grandmother was a backing vocalist for late jazz legends Lena Horne and Count Basie. Then she realized that she needed to “step up” as she was residing her grandmother’s “dream.”

“Even though I never met her, it’s for her, it’s for him, it’s for my kids. Like, it’s just it was bigger than me,” Rowland continued. “Meeting my father was bigger than me. It was about my kids and about the unknown in which I was nosy. I wanted to know.”

Rowland went on to say that her relationship along with her father is “awesome” now. Also, he’s “so excited” to spend one other Christmas with him and the remainder of her household

“He’s got grandkids now, and he’s got a relationship with his daughter now. He’s got things that I pray just make his life just a little bit longer, so we have a little bit more time. But I just love my time with him. It’s beautiful,” Rowland added.