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Beyoncé is arguably the greatest living performer and the biggest star in the world.
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Her decades of perfectionism and incomparable work ethic make her a celebrity even to other celebrities.
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Unfortunately for the Beyhive, her ever so loyal fanbase, we couldn't all grow up with Beyoncé and build a career from a Grammy-winning girl group called Destiny's Child,
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thus establishing a life-long friendship with Queen Bey, like Kelly Rowland did.
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So how did other celebrities join her inner circle?
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For starters, friends of the award-winning artist have shown that the secret to staying close to Beyoncé is respecting her privacy.
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Despite mega-world fame, Beyoncé is notoriously protective of how much access the public gets to her personal life.
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With limited interaction with fans, limited interaction with the press, and limited time out partying in Hollywood, it's no question that her closest pals have their lips sealed.
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Friends like Michelle Williams only go so far as to praise the artist for her work, rather than share intimate details.
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It is because of this level of privacy that Beyoncé was able to drop a surprise self-titled album in 2013.
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So it's perhaps unsurprising that the "Halo" singer utilizes non-disclosure agreements.
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After the release of DJ Khaled's "Top Off" featuring Jay-Z and Beyoncé in 2019,
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fans wondered if Beyoncé's lyrics about non-disclosure agreements were referencing comedian Tiffany Haddish.
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According to ELLE, Haddish attended an after-party for one of Jay-Z's concerts in Los Angeles back in 2018.
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"I had got invited to her birthday party, right. But she didn't invite me, somebody else had."
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At the party, another celebrity reportedly bit Beyoncé and Haddish was the one to spill the tea to the public.
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The comedian later went on Instagram Live to tell fans she couldn't share any more details about the night because she signed an NDA.
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Haddish explained,
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"Look, once you sign an NDA, see if you all would've asked me this, you know,
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back when I did the interview like a month and a half ago before I could've talked about who the biter is but, you know, NDAs are real, y'all."
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The night of the party was the first time Haddish had met Beyoncé, and it seems the comedian learned her lesson about keeping quiet about outings with the superstar.
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She later tweeted, "I love Beyonce. Everything she said rang so real to me.
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Just know I will sign an NDA any day for Beyoncé.
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But also know this, I will fight for Beyoncé. I Love that woman she is a Gift from God."
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Aside from the necessary privacy, there are benefits to being friends with the Queen.
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Actress Reese Witherspoon shared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that Mr. and Mrs. Carter were more than willing to share champagne at the 2020 Golden Globes.
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The couple then sent Witherspoon more champagne delivered straight to her front door.
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Witherspoon joked,"Beyoncé and I are really good friends. I mean really, really, really, really good friends."
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Speaking to Variety, fellow Texan Megan Thee Stallion shared how her friendship with Beyoncé had also evolved.
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From collaborating on the "Savage Remix" single to being invited to the Carter's New Year's Eve Party,
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the rapper said,"In the first five minutes of the conversation, I felt like I've been knowing her all my life.
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She treated me like family, and now I feel like I am family. We talk all the time."
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Perhaps the best way to know the rules behind being in Beyoncé's inner circle of close friends is to look at the singer's lyrics.
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In her 2018 collaboration "FRIENDS" with husband Jay-Z,
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Mrs. Carter describes her friends as those that pray for her and support her art. She sings,
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"See better things for me / Want better days for me unselfishly / They pray and pray for me, they pray and pray for me / Whenever I'm in need."
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Many A-list celebrities who consider themselves friends with the singer are very vocal about it.
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama chose Beyoncé as the one person she would want to be on a desert island with in an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
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Mrs. Obama said, "She's a sweetheart. She's smart, she's creative, she's a great mother, she loves her family. She's just a low-key lady — we have a lot in common that way. Except I can't sing."
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If listening to Beyoncé is the way into her friend group, a lot of us are way closer to joining the circle than we think.
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