When Beyonce's baby bump appeared to fold in two during an appearance on Australian TV earlier this month, tongues began to wag.
Though suggestions that was wearing a prosthetic were slammed, many conspiracists suggested that the 30-year-old singer and her rapper husband Jay-Z, 41, were trying to conceal the use of a surrogate.
Now her father Mathew Knowles' former mistress is claiming that the 60-year-old asked her to hand over the child they conceived during their affair, for the superstar couple to raise as their own.
It will prove grist to the mill of internet theorists who are still nurturing wild notions about use of a fake bump.
Former Scrubs star Alexsandra Wright, 40, revealed Mathew's bizarre plan to have the superstar raise her own half-brother to America's Star magazine.
Alexsandra recalled: 'My first thought when he asked me if I would give up our child to Beyonce and Jay-Z was, 'Are you out of your mind?'
The actress, who gave birth to son Nixon on February 4 last year after her 18-month extramarital affair with Beyonce's father and former manager ended, added: 'Nothing in the world, no amount of money would make me give up my child, you can't buy my child from me!'
The actress, who gave birth to son Nixon on February 4 last year after her 18-month extramarital affair with Beyonce's father and former manager ended, added: 'Nothing in the world, no amount of money would make me give up my child, you can't buy my child from me!'
'Maybe Mathew thought money could buy anything,' she added.
Alexsandra, who says she recorded her conversation with Mathew, then went on to ponder: 'I don't know why he suggested it.'
