Overview
- On the PBD Podcast, Howard said he “had a chance to date Beyoncé early on” but instead chose “the girl with the blue eyes” from Destiny’s Child, whom he did not name.
- He asserted Beyoncé later picked him for a chair dance during the group’s 2005 BET Awards “Cater 2 U” performance to “show me what I had lost.”
- Coverage confirms he was brought onstage for that performance alongside Nelly and Magic Johnson.
- Reports note his qualifier that this was long before Beyoncé’s relationship with Jay-Z, which outlets place as beginning around 2001 with marriage in 2008.
- Articles highlight skepticism and social-media pushback over the story and the unnamed member—with some speculation pointing to Farrah Franklin—as Complex cites Howard’s history of unusual claims and Billboard says it reached out to Beyoncé’s representative for comment.